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Sunset over the Grand Canal of Venice.

Sforza Castle, built to protect the rulers of Milan.

The most famous shopping district in Milan: Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.

Milan's monumental cemetery is filled with work-of-art tombs like this one.

Passion flowers in Padua's botanic gardens.

A bee doing the rounds collecting pollen.

A lily in Padua's botanic gardens.

A water lily in Padua's botanic gardens.

The cloister of San Zeno in Verona.

One of the tombs of the Scaligere family of Verona.

Lamberti Tower in Verona.

Bridge over the river to Castelvecchio in Verona.

One of the towers of Castelvecchio in Verona.

Storm clouds gather over a sunny Venetian canal.

A typical scene in Venice; a gondola with tourists sailing down the Grand Canal.

Sunset over the Grand Canal of Venice.

View from the water of Venice's Grand Canal.

The palaces along the Grand Canal all compete with each other to be the grandest.

Gondolas parked outside of an extravagant church in Venice.

Some of the canals in Venice can get very narrow.

The Grand Canal of Venice.

Houses on small canal "backstreets".

Tourists in a gondola exploring the small side canals of Venice.

Even Venice has traffic signs for the boats and gondolas.

St Mark's Belltower, one of Venice's big icons.

The inside of St Mark's Cathedral is covered in golden mosaics.

St Mark's Cathedral is one of the most beautifully extravagant buildings in the world.

It looks like a painting but it's actually a mosaic of thousands and thousands of tiny tile pieces.

Santa Maria della Salute, one of the many extravagant churches in Venice.

The glass-blowers of Murano are famous for the great skill in making things like this glass chandelier.

Self-portrait from the imperial box in Venice's La Fenice opera house.

The grand ceiling of Venice's La Fenice opera house.

A sparkling chandelier in Venice's La Fenice opera house.

The grand entrance to the Doge's Palace in Venice.

The Doge's Palace and the Lion of St Mark on a column.

The grand entrance to the Doge's Palace in Venice.

Inside the grand courtyard of the Doge's Palace.

The famous Torre dell’Orologio of Venice. The clocktower here shows the signs of the zodiac, and phases of the moon as well as the time of day.

The Italians were masters of trompe l'oeil; making a flat surface look three-dimensional. Almost all the "architecture" here is actually painted onto a flat surface.

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