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Venice in winter keeps strange hours. The sequence begins before sunrise, with mist on the water off the Punta della Dogana and the Piazzetta still empty under its lamps, then follows the grey days, and the occasional brilliant blue one, along the Grand Canal from the Rialto to the Accademia.

In the middle comes the high water: acqua alta spreading across Campo Santa Margherita and over the fondamente of Dorsoduro. After that come the quieter canals and bridges of Cannaregio, Castello and the Giudecca, a boat out across the lagoon to Burano and Murano, and finally the city after dark, when the campi empty out and the fog settles back over the Salute.

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A gondola crossing before the Punta della Dogana in sunrise mist The Piazzetta San Marco at dawn, its lamps still lit Gondolas under their covers off San Marco, the Campanile beyond The island of San Giorgio Maggiore from high above the basin Santa Maria della Salute under heavy cloud, seen from the water The Campanile and the Doge's Palace across the basin from San Giorgio The Biblioteca Marciana and the Piazzetta on a grey, rainy day The Bridge of Sighs, with a gondola passing beneath A 'lion's mouth' for anonymous denunciations at the Doge's Palace The Rialto Bridge in low winter sun, water taxis on the Grand Canal A delivery boat loaded with boxes passing under the Rialto Bridge The Pescaria, the arcaded fish market hall at Rialto The Grand Canal near the station, San Simeone Piccolo on the left Late sun on the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge, the Salute beyond Acqua alta in Campo Santa Margherita beneath a bare plane tree High water spilling over the Fondamenta del Squero Steps vanishing into acqua alta on the Fondamenta di Borgo Looking along the Rio dei Carmini in Dorsoduro A water taxi heading down the Rio di San Lorenzo The Ponte dei Tre Archi on the Cannaregio canal The Ponte de la Crea in Cannaregio, a red boat moored below Small boats tied up below the Ponte San Stin A carved stone wellhead in a Cannaregio campo The white Ponte Longo on the Giudecca A gull keeping watch from a mooring post Burano's leaning bell tower above the painted houses Painted houses behind a bare tree on Burano Boats moored below a brick bridge on Burano Christmas lights over a bridge on Murano, the clock tower behind The Ponte Ca' Zon in Castello at dusk The Rio de la Tana at dusk, beside the Arsenale rope-works wall The Grand Canal from the Rialto Bridge at blue hour Campo Santa Maria Mater Domini, empty at night The apse of San Giacomo dell'Orio and a bare plane tree at night A lamplit bridge over a dark side canal, from the Ponte Ruga Bella The Scalzi church, Santa Maria di Nazareth, floodlit at night Mist over the Dogana and the Salute at night

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