Description Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased, Marco Polo said.
Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.
-- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Venice, 'La Serenissima', is one of the most breathtaking cities in the world.
A floating labyrinth; the world's greatest museum, frozen in time; a cultural jewel, slowly sinking into the lagoon from which it .
Tauris Parke Venice: a literary guide for travellers, paperback/marie-jose gransard
