LOOKING DOWN ON SAN MARCO. – When Venice wan young, the church of San Marco began to take shape. Originally a shrine for the custody of their patron saint, secretly translated from Alexander in 828, the church was enlarged and embelished by almost every Doge as a pious duty, till it became .an encyclopedia of architectural stairs. BURIAL PLACE OF THE DOGES. -- The church of S. Giovanni and S. Paolo is a large, structure built in the style of the fourteenth century Gothic. It is famous for its treasures of paintings and sculpture and is also the burial place of many of the most famous of the Doges of Venice. The altar piece of this church has a painting of Saint Peter the Martyr by Titian. VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL.—Flanked by a hundred palaces, the architecture of which ranges from Venetian-Byzantine and Gothic-Florentine to Renaissance, the Grand Canal divides the City of Venice into two unequal parts and is the chief arterial roadway of the city. On summer evenings on the Grand Canal arc organised carnivals and serenades with elaborate games and great processions of gaily decorated gondolas. The illustration shows the new Scalzi bridge, one of the three bridges to cross the Canal. Notice the gondolas on the right waiting to take visitors to various hotels.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 8

LOOKING DOWN ON SAN MARCO. - When Venice wan young, the church of San Marco began to take shape. Originally a shrine for the custody of their patron saint, secretly translated from Alexander in 828, the church was enlarged and embelished by almost every Doge as a pious duty, till it became .an encyclopedia of architectural stairs.

BURIAL PLACE OF THE DOGES. -- The church of S. Giovanni and S. Paolo is a large, structure built in the style of the fourteenth century Gothic. It is famous for its treasures of paintings and sculpture and is also the burial place of many of the most famous of the Doges of Venice. The altar piece of this church has a painting of Saint Peter the Martyr by Titian.

VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL.— Flanked by a hundred palaces, the architecture of which ranges from Venetian-Byzantine and Got hic-Florentine to Renaissance, the Grand Canal divides the City of Venice into two unequal parts and is the chief arterial roadway of the city. On summer evenings on the Grand Canal arc organised carnivals and serenades with elaborate games and great processions of gaily decorated gondolas. The illustration shows the new Scalzi bridge, one of the three bridges to cross the Canal. Notice the gondolas on the right waiting to take visitors to various hotels.