Vintage Travel Ads: Adriatica Venice Giclee Print
Adriatica, Venise Giclee Print
38 in. x 56 in.
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Framed Mounted
On the edge of the sea, built upon islands or dunes, or even directly upon piles, and only connected with the mainland by a long railway embankment, stands the unique city of Venice, hardly above the level of the lagoon. The inhabitants of Aquileia on the north-east corner of the Adriatic, being driven out by the Huns, built a new home under the shelter of the Lido, not to be reached by any enemy who could not traverse the sea. Venice rose rapidly to prosperity through the ability of its inhabitants, so that as early as the ninth and tenth centuries it vied with the other maritime cities and looked upon the Adriatic as its own sphere of influence. After 1200 it ruled the whole of the Christian East, and carried on a vigorous contest with Genoa, its rival in the Levant. At a later period Ottoman Turks found in the Venetians their toughest and most courageous antagonists until internal dissensions, an aristocratic government harsh even to cruelty, and the destruction of their command over the commerce of the world, brought about the ruin of the city and of the State.
The extent and importance of her trade with the North has been spoken of earlier. Every stone in the Venice of to-day speaks of her great past, and the palaces, the monuments, and the churches testify to her wealth as well as to that peculiar combination of Eastern and Western life which could only exist at the point of contact of two worlds.
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