`It offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for
leisurely sight-seeing will require.' Financial Times`If ever a
guidebook were designed to be read as literature it is Mr Honour's.
Even those who know Venice welland love it well will add to their
appreciation from this seemingly endless store of information.'
Economist Offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and
for leisurely sight-seeing will require. FINANCIAL TIMES The best
guide book I have ever encountered... and a book I found it
impossible not to read from beginning to end. OBSERVER There are
few pleasanter ways of passing a summer's evening than sitting over
a cup of coffee, and perhaps a glass of Aurum, in the Piazza San
Marco. It is especially agreeable on those nights when the Venetian
city band thunders away at some throbbingly romantic piece... And
all the while the younger inhabitants parade around the square,
chattering, flirting, quarrelling and staring at their visitors
with that same unwinking gaze that Venetians have turned on their
guests for the past five centuries. The facade of San Marco closes
the scene in a glitter of golden mosaic and a bubbling of cupolas,
while the great thick red campanile stretches up into the warm
mothy darkness of the summer sky. Hugh Honour, it is clear, knows
Venice exceptionally well and catches the rhythms of the city's
life with unerring skill. His guide, with its winning blend of
evocativedetail and precise information, spurs the reader to
investigate Venice's wonders: Piazza San Marco is only the
beginning of a journey into the heart of Venice and its history.
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