More cool pics of Venice...

I highly recommend getting away to the city of a thousand bridges...

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(Crooked) Picture of Venice from the Campanile di San Marco, or Belltower of St. Mark's.

"The present-day structure was built in 1912 as an exact replica of its predecessor, which collapsed unexpectly on the morning of July 14, 1902.

Some Venetians claimed that St. Mark's Square looked better without the tower, and others thought it was foolish to spend taxpayers' money on a replacement. In the end, donations from outside Venice covered most of the expense, and a rebuilt Campanile was christened on April 25, 1912--exactly 1,000 years after the foundations of the original structure had been laid, according to historians of the time."