On The
Piazzetta And Fronting The Landing Place Stand Two Columns Of White
Marble, On One Of Which Stands The Winged Lion Of St Marco And On The Other
A Crocodile, Emblematical Of The Foreign Commerce And Possessions Of The
Republic.
The space between these two columns was allotted for the
execution of State criminals.
Not far from the church of St Marco, and near
to that angle of the Piazza which connects it with the Piazzetta,
stands the famous Campanile or Steeple of San Marco. It is a square
building 800 feet in height, from the top of which one has the best view of
Venice and its adjacent isles, the distant Alps and the marina dove il Po
discende. A Quai, if Quai it may be called, which has a row of houses on
each side, one row of which is on the water's edge, leads from the
Piazzetta to some gardens, which terminate on a point of land. This Quai
is very broad and well paved, and is the only thing that can be called a
street in all Venice. The Piazza di San Marco, therefore, this Quai and
the garden before mentioned form the only promenades in Venice. This garden
moreover has trees, and these are the only trees that are to be met with in
this city. In this garden are two Cafes.
The variety of costume is another very agreeable spectacle at Venice. Here
you meet with Albanians, Greeks, Turks, Moors, Sclavonians and Armenians,
all in their respective national costumes.
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