The small island across from the waterfront at Piazza San Marco is dominated by San Giorgio Maggiore and its bell tower.
The previous times I had been to Venice, I had wondered about the cool little island across the lagoon. For some reason, I got it in my head that I wanted to visit it. So when planning this trip, I planned for us to go over.
Now, going there wasn’t horrible, but in retrospect I think we could have gone to a more interesting place with the time we spent getting to/from the island.
We took the vaporetto one stop to San Giorgio, and it was fun getting some more time on the water. This time we went a LOT faster than our gondola ride.
The church is famous for being designed by Palladio, but it’s been emptied out and a modern art exhibit was being installed. From what we saw of the “art” that was already installed and being installed (Editor: Uh-oh, I feel another anti-modern rant coming on) it was typical modern art crap.
And by “modern art” I don’t mean Picasso or Dali, I mean meaningless stuff that neither Carol nor I can stand. No, not everything has to be Monet, van Gogh, da Vinci, or Michelangelo, but I’ve seen more interesting art from eight year olds.
As a society and a culture, we’d be better off if starving modern art artists actually did starve, so they couldn’t make any more this crap.
(Editor: You might want to delete that last paragraph. Writer: I just want my opinion to be understood. If there’s an outcry from my readers, yes, I will delete, but somehow I don’t think I’ll be getting many, if any, outraged emails).
So we bought our tickets and went up the bell tower, which looks like a smaller version of the Campanile across the lagoon. The views were great, but literally that’s the only reason to go.
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