Thursday, June 19, 2008
This is where we got off the vaporetto - San Marco's of course! Scott and I took the kids up the Campanile(clock tower) in the picture while grandma and grandpa went inside the church. This tower is not the original - the first was completed in 1173 as a lighthouse to assist navigators on the lagoon. It was from the top that Galileo demonstrated his telescope to Doge Leonardo Dona in 1609. In 1902, with little warning, the foundations gave way and it suddenly collapsed. The new tower was finally opened on April 25, the feast of St. Mark, 1912.
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