The Tourist in Venice
By the late thirteenth century, Venice (Italy) was the most prosperous city in all of Europe. About 36,000 sailors operated more than 3,000 ships dominating the trade throughout the Mediaranean Sea and far beyond. Marco Polo was Venetian and also the master of the art of love Giacomo Girolamo Casanova called Venice his home. In the 1950s about 164,000 [...]
