VENEZIA
silently merging with its waters
(c) photo: bibloi.com
The world's most famous sinking city: Venice (or 'Venezia' in Italian) has
attracted tourists from its earliest days and has been used countless times
as a backdrop of story of melancholy, decy and faded decadence.
Click here
for my guide to this labyrinthine city, or as Jeanette Winterson put it, 'the city
of mazes'.
SAINT PETERSBURG
city of extremes
(c) photo: bibloi.com
St Petersburg, the Russian city founded by Czar Peter the Great on the river
Neva,  celebrated its tricentenary in 2003. I was so lucky as to visit this city in
this jubilee year: for an overview of the articles on St Petersburg, my  
impressions  and much more:
click here.
EXPERIENCE AT HOME
free wallpapers now available
You can now experience one of the three cities
discussed here on your own desktop at home with
our exclusive wallpapers. We have views of the
Ducal Palace Courtyard in Venice, of the Roman
Agora in Athens (picture left) or the Church of Our
Saviour of the Spilled Blood in St Petersburg. To
download any of these three for free:
click here.
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