San Giorgio Maggiore From Piazza San Marco-signed - Venice - Italy

by Riccardo Forte

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San Giorgio Maggiore From Piazza San Marco-signed - Venice - Italy

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Riccardo Forte

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Photograph - Photograph

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Gondolas are always present, of course. After all, this is Venice. And gondola is a Venice icon. But this image would not be the same without the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the background. Since the founding of the city (c. 568), the island was property of the noble Memmo family. In 829, a wooden church consecrated to St. George was built, and the island took the name of Greater (Maggiore) to be distinguished from San Giorgio in Alga, another island of the Venetian lagoon.
This picture was taken at dusk, from Piazza San Marco, using a Sigma wide-angle lens, with a 16mm focal length.

� riccardo forte / Digitally watermarked by Digimarc Guardian

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September 8th, 2015

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