Piazza San Marco – Venice, Italy – Photo Friday

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PIazza San Marco - Venice

I have always liked this picture of Piazza San Marco taken looking down on it from the campanile on the square. I loved the black and white nature of the scene offset by the brightly color umbrella of a vendor selling food for the pigeons.

Except on the one occasion where I saw Piazza San Marco in the light of pre-dawn the piazza seems always filled with both pigeons and with tourists content to be pigeon perches. In the pre-dawn the square is so completely empty as to unrecognizable.

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by Chris Christensen

Chris Christensen is the host of the Amateur Traveler. Chris left his day job in January 2010 to focus on consulting, podcasting and blogging . He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations for a company in Silicon Valley (LiveWorld) that runs online communities for companies like eBay, Marriott, American Express, Campbells, Kimberly Clark, A&E, and Mini Cooper.

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Bryan Person

Says:

Chris:

The one time I was at Piazza San Marco was in August 1998. It was stinkin’ hot and overfilled with tourists and pigeons (not in the pre-dawn hour, obviously). I didn’t stay long :(

Great photo!

Madeline

Says:

as of May 2008, feeding pigeons in St Mark’s square became illegal and put the 19 vendors selling pigeon food out of business. So there are many fewer pigeons in the square now – thank goodness!!

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