| VENEZIA silently merging with its waters |
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| (c) photo: bibloi.com |
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| 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'. |
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| SAINT PETERSBURG city of extremes |
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| (c) photo: bibloi.com |
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| 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. |
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| EXPERIENCE AT HOME free wallpapers now available |
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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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