![]() ![]() ![]() Masters of the sea, the Venetians raised an empire through an ethos of service and loyalty to a republic that lasted a thousand years. ![]() 'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary - her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance.' Dream and romance have conditioned myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city's story embodies another kind of experience altogether - the hard reality of an independent state built on conquest, profit and entitlement and on the toughness and resilience of a free people. ![]()
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