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Venice - Italy. Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen An Bord des M.L. "Fulda" Venice is extraordinarily delightful and unique. In fact it is the only city of its kind in the world. According to a detailed map it is a big island in a natural harbor out at sea - and is intersected throughout by innumerable blue channels and waterways. A close up shows that they very buildings seem to spring from the very water and lay themselves out into squares, wedges, rectangles, triangles and every other known and unknown geometrical form - among the waterways - the streets. They always present a solid or united front, that is they are joined the one to the other and only lanes and thorofares break the continuous rows that flank the canals. The buildings tower two, three and four stories above the water - only a jag in the roofline a variation in the color or a slight hardly to be detected difference in the architecture, differentiates between the "palazzas". The front door presents an unusual picture - the walls of the houses grow out of the very water, the bottom steps are lost somewhere in the deep, the middle ones are green with water slime and the top are lapped by the waves as traffic steams up and down the canals. There is no evidence of earth anywhere about - the city seems to have grown like a mushroom from the sea bottom. The only ground to be found anywhere, is in the tiny square gardens in the courtyard of the villas, and this as a rule is not very convincing. Perchance it may have been brought in the from the outside!
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Venice - Italy. Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen An Bord des M.L. "Fulda" Venice is extraordinarily delightful and unique. In fact it is the only city of its kind in the world. According to a detailed map it is a big island in a natural harbor out at sea - and is intersected throughout by innumerable blue channels and waterways. A close up shows that they very buildings seem to spring from the very water and lay themselves out into squares, wedges, rectangles, triangles and every other known and unknown geometrical form - among the waterways - the streets. They always present a solid or united front, that is they are joined the one to the other and only lanes and thorofares break the continuous rows that flank the canals. The buildings tower two, three and four stories above the water - only a jag in the roofline a variation in the color or a slight hardly to be detected difference in the architecture, differentiates between the "palazzas". The front door presents an unusual picture - the walls of the houses grow out of the very water, the bottom steps are lost somewhere in the deep, the middle ones are green with water slime and the top are lapped by the waves as traffic steams up and down the canals. There is no evidence of earth anywhere about - the city seems to have grown like a mushroom from the sea bottom. The only ground to be found anywhere, is in the tiny square gardens in the courtyard of the villas, and this as a rule is not very convincing. Perchance it may have been brought in the from the outside!
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