The Grand Canal - A Gondola Ride - St. Mark's Square - The Basilica - The Campanile - The Doge's Palace - The Treasury - Murano Glass Blowing - Art Restoration.Welcome to Venice! Join Doug Jones, one of America's premier travelog producers, on a journey to one of themost romantic cities of the world. For a thousand years, the most serene republic has delighted visitors. Art, literature, and creative thought flourished here while the rest of Europe plummeted into the dark ages. Its streets of water and palaces rising from the sea formed a center of creative thought that had never existed in the world before. Today, Venice faces formidable challenges. This city, which has remained almost unchanged since the renaissance times, is being forced to cope with problems of polution, overcrowding and art decay.While the problems have by no means been conquered, there is a reason for hope.
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Length: 01:10:00 Posted: 8/23/2008
