Natural feature
Grand Canal
Grand Canal, 30100 Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice
S-shaped waterway lined with grand old palaces, crossed by gondola, ferry, and storied bridges.
This guide to the Grand Canal in Venice traces the last days of the poet Robert Browning, spent in December 1889 at Ca' Rezzonico, his son's grand palazzo on the water. It follows his quiet routine of mornings on the Lido and evenings at the palace, and a telegram that reached him on his final night with news from London. The palace itself was built two centuries earlier for the banking Rezzonico family, generations before Browning ever saw its pale stone facade.
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