what should i visit in venice?
Grand Canal, Venice The Grand Canal, Venice Venice: The Prison Palazzo Dario, Venice View of Venice Gondola in Venice View of Venice: Ducal Palace, Dogana, and San Giorgio
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 After five days of difficult travel through wind and rain , lodged uncomfortably at inns Leopold described as disgusting , filthy , and bereft of food , they reached Rome . Pallavicini 's letters soon had their effect : meetings with the Count 's kinsman Lazaro Opizio Cardinal Pallavicino , Prince San Angelo of Naples , and Charles Edward Stuart , known as " Bonnie Prince Charlie " , Pretender to the throne of England . There was much sightseeing , and performances before the nobility . The Mozarts visited the Sistine Chapel , where Wolfgang heard and later wrote down from memory Gregorio Allegri 's famous Miserere , a complex nine @-@ part choral work that had not been published . Amid these activities , Wolfgang was busily composing . He wrote the contradanse K. 123 / 73g and the aria Se ardire , e speranza ( K. 82 / 73o ) , and finished the G major symphony begun earlier . 

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 When visiting Venice in 1978 , Gould noted that the spandrels of the San Marco cathedral , while quite beautiful , were not spaces planned by the architect . Rather the spaces arise as " necessary architectural byproducts of mounting a dome on rounded arches . " Gould and Lewontin thus defined " spandrels " in the evolutionary biology context , to mean any biological feature of an organism that arises as a necessary side consequence of other features , which is not directly selected for by natural selection . Proposed examples include the " masculinized genitalia in female hyenas , exaptive use of an umbilicus as a brooding chamber by snails , the shoulder hump of the giant Irish deer , and several key features of human mentality . " 

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 The bucentaur ( / bjuːˈsɛntɔːr / bew @-@ SEN @-@ tor ; bucintoro in Italian and Venetian ) was the state barge of the doges of Venice . It was used every year on Ascension Day up to 1798 to take the doge out to the Adriatic Sea to perform the " Marriage of the Sea " – a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the sea every year on the " Festa della Sensa " ( Ascension Day ) . 

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 The sinking of Venice slowed after artesian wells were banned in the 1960s , but the city remains threatened by the acqua alta floods . Recent studies have suggested that the city is no longer sinking , but a state of alert remains in place . In May 2003 , then @-@ Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Italian : Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ) , an experimental model for evaluating the performance of inflatable gates . The project proposes laying a series of 79 inflatable pontoons across the sea bed at the three entrances to the Venetian Lagoon . When tides are predicted to rise above 110 centimetres ( 43 in ) , the pontoons will be filled with air and block the incoming water from the Adriatic Sea . This engineering work is due to be completed by 2014 . 

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 After traveling across Spain , the embassy sailed on the Mediterranean aboard three Spanish frigates towards Italy . Due to bad weather , they had to stay for a few days in the French harbour of Saint @-@ Tropez , where they were received by the local nobility , and made quite a sensation on the populace . 
