Venice remains
a remarkable city

VENICE - Great hotels, it is said, have a sense of theatre.
Imagine then the stage that is Venice and a grand hotel that

is the Cipriani.

Getting there is a performance.
One’s aeroplane breaks through
cloud and there is this remarkable
city nestled in its protective lagoon.

talk
David Wishart

Nothing is ordinary. More than one
wit has been given the credit for cabl-
ing his agent in New York: ‘‘Streets
filled with water. Please advise.”’

Accordingly the airport bus is a
boat; either that or a sleek speedboat
at 10 times the price.

The water bus is actually a very
good ride, 40 minutes or so in which
to catch glimpses of Venice, which
had just hosted the world economic
summit. Security was so tight that
the city’s 200 yondolicrs were
shunted off the main canals, Even
the ornate water hearses were ban-
ned, which prompted a headline in
one newspaper: ‘‘Please don't die
during the summit.”’

But this was a mere bagatelle in
the history of Venice, long known as
La Serenissima — ‘‘the most serene’’
- the stage for state occasions since
1177, when St. Mark’s Cathedral
was just 100 years old, which pro-
duced an accord between Pope Alex-
ander I] and Frederick Barbarossa
ending centuries of strife between the
Roman Catholic Church and the
Holy Roman Empire.

Venice went on to become a world
power, commanding a maritime em-
pire that reached its zenith in the 15th
century. When fortunes shifted,
upstarts like Napoleon were able to
strut in St. Mark’s Square, which he
called the drawing room of Europe.

’ These days, in the summer at any
rate, the tourists come by the legion.
For a fortunate few, however, there
is a special place, a hotel which is not
even in Venice, but on the island of

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Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples

April 30-May 1

Overnight trip to Calgary to see this magnificent exhibition held aver from the OLYMPICS
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AM are welcome.

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