This is Venice

A collection of all that's fascinating about this magnificent city. St. Mark's Square, pigeons, and the Doge's Palace, alongside vendors of beads and postcards. Here you'll find gondoliers, newlyweds-bearing gondolas, and even a funeral procession on the water; the winding alleys and canals, and the quintessential Venetian policeman... And there's the Bucintoro, the ceremonial ship that sets sail every year to celebrate Venice's marriage to the sea. Eighty drawings, as his custom. František Tomáš’s interview with Miroslav Šašek in České slovo from January 2, 1961. This is a city where life—from birth to the final voyage—is intertwined with the sea. A place where, aside from an ice cream cart, wheels are nowhere to be seen. Instead of a main street, there's a canal, and the city's pulse is felt through waterways where even garbage collectors and buses, with names that splash off the tongue like vaporetto and motoscafo, glide by. Venice, through the observant eye and delicate brush of Miroslav Šašek. Palaces, gondolas, bridges, and pigeons just as he saw them fifty years ago, and as they have been for centuries... and will for centuries more, until the sea decides otherwise.