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By E. V. Lucas
30 Mar, 2021
The best approach to Venice-Chioggia-A first view-Another water approach- Padua and Fusina-The railway station-A complete transformation-A Venetian guidebook-A city of a dream. I have no doubt whatever that, if the diversion can be arranged, the perf
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The best approach to Venice-Chioggia-A first view-Another water approach- Padua and Fusina-The railway station-A complete transformation-A Venetian guidebook-A city of a dream. I have no doubt whatever that, if the diversion can be arranged, the perfect way for the railway traveller to approach Venice for the first time is from Chioggia, in the afternoon. Chioggia is at the end of a line from Rovigo, and it ought not to be difficult to get there either overnight or in the morning. If overnight, one would spend some very delightful hours in drifting about Chioggia itself, which is a kind of foretaste of Venice, although not like enough to her to impair the surprise. (But nothing can do that. Not all the books or photographs in the world, not Turner, nor Whistler, nor Clara Montalba, can so familiarize the stranger with the idea of Venice that the reality of Venice fails to be sudden and arresting. Less
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