Insight Guides: Western Europe by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Western Europe
Publisher: APA
Published: 2013-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Piazza San Marco

Heart of the Venetian Republic, Piazza San Marco 1 [map] (St Mark’s Square) is still the city’s great showpiece and home to some of its finest monuments. The square teems with tourists and pigeons, while café orchestras play on, determined to see the Grand Old Lady dance to her grave. When Napoleon first set eyes on the gossiping multitudes and lavish decor, he called it “the finest drawing room in Europe”. Byron, Dickens, Proust and Wagner all sat at the famous Caffè Florian, which still serves the best (and most expensive) coffee on the piazza; Thomas Mann brooded here in the early 20th century and wrote Death in Venice; and Ernest Hemingway drank six bottles of wine a night here while he wrote some of his best prose.

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