Ergebnis für "Mein Venedig" in Geschichte

No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.” During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival.

Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. Goethe calls her "the market-place of the Morning and the Evening lands". Certainly no city on earth gives a more immediate impression of symmetry and unity, or seems more patently born to greatness.

"Rom hat Zeit", schrieb der Maler Anselm Feuerbach 1855 in einem Brief. Eine "innere Freude, die die Brust zu sprengen droht", hatte ihm, kaum hatte er Venedig betreten, den Atem verschlagen. Die Ewige Stadt, sein eigentliches Reiseziel, schien vergessen. Und er war nicht der einzige, dem es so ging. Wer aus Preußen, Sachsen oder Böhmen kam, machte in Venedig nicht selten auf dem Hin- und auf dem Rückweg Station. Die Reisenden aus dem Norden erblickten hier zum ersten Mal das Mittelmeer.