(From my big trans-European trip of 1990, with two friends of mine). (The first picture of the series is ...

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(From my big trans-European trip of 1990, with two friends of mine).
(The first picture of the series is here: http://www.fotothing.com/karlbark/photo/f69e850729a1ce1e49f80ced33211c72/ )

-And another picture from Venice. This might well be the most photographed place in Venice - the Rialto bridge.

It was completed in 1591 and is in fact remarkably similar to the wooden bridge it succeeded. The single-span engineering of the bridge was considered so audacious that architect Vincenzo Scamozzi predicted future ruin. (The wooden bridges preceeding the stone bridge had collapsed twice).
-One of the designers who competed for the design of the bridge was Michelangelo himself!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rialto_Bridge

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