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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 824099" data-attributes="member: 53455">Thanks a lot for your interest, although I have to say it embarrasses me: I have thousands of photos of Venice, most of them of details or places that would mean absolutely nothing to people who do not already know the city quite well, and even if I limited myself to the rest of the photos, I would truly be at a loss about which to choose, unless I deluge you under bucketfuls of Venice photos...!  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />So, I have for the moment chosen this one from 2009, which is not particularly beautiful but will maybe give you a tidbit of information you didn’t have.First, you may not know this but Italy is a patchwork of dialects. Some of them are more practiced today than others, especially by dwindling communities that feel threatened by “outsiders”: in the case of Venice, those outsiders are, of course, tourists, and true Venetians often choose to speak Venetian to make others feel they don’t belong. Anyway, this photo shows a typical building erected in the early 1700s in the Jewish quarter. “What? Seven floors, on top of the ground floor? Why so tall? And what’s this ‘Jewish quarter’ thing?”Well, throughout History, Jewish people were welcome in Venice, or at least accepted, and to my knowledge were never booted out like they shamefully were, unfortunately, from so many other places. However, locals were indeed wary of them and placed restrictions on their activities. They were to live in a part of town surrounded by a canal, with only one entrance which was closed at night. They were all supposed to spend the night within that area and could only go out and resume their activities at sunrise. Now, that area was also known for being the one where a big forge was installed, and in Venetian dialect, the word for forge is gheto. Hence the name “ghetto”. And since that area was pretty small, and the Jewish community was growing, they did what they also did centuries later in Manhattan: having no more ground to build, they built upwards...!Nikon D3, Nikkor 14-24mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]410209[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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