I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season. Best wishes for a wonderful new year - I hope that we all will be able to spend some time in Venice (or anywhere else on your travel wish list) in 2013.
I wanted to let you know that A Lover of Venice has a new game in progress: Campanili! 56 photos of bell towers and belfries to identify. It's challenging but I'm having lots of fun with it.
Here's a mini-quiz, not too hard. Can you identify the three towers in this photo?
Comments (9)
Hi Annie, Happy New Year! That looks like Santa Margarita campo. I remember the big tree, the fish vendor and that cut off tower that you pointed out to me on one of my photos that I had taken. But I'm trying to thing what was near there, but I can't and I don't know the names of the towers. That's a beautiful photo. I love the colors of the sunbeam on the buildings.
Have a wonderful first weekend in the new year.
Posted by Kathy (Trekcapri) | January 3, 2013 8:39 AM
Posted on January 3, 2013 08:39
Is that San Pantaleone? I'm hopeless at these. I've had a go at Daniel's quiz but to no avail. My mother used to moan at me as a boy to keep my head up and shoulders back. I used to say I was looking at the ground for sixpences.
Posted by Andrew | January 3, 2013 2:05 PM
Posted on January 3, 2013 14:05
Kathy is correct (of course), Campo Santa Margarita, with the stump of the church's campanile. On the right is the campanile of a church with a very large painting on the ceiling, and to the right of that the campanile of the church of the brothers.
Posted by Bert | January 3, 2013 2:21 PM
Posted on January 3, 2013 14:21
Hi Kathy, happy new year to you too. And yes, it's campo Santa Margherita - I'm impressed that you recognized it!
Andrew, too funny. Daniel's game IS challenging - I know some of them from memory, but many of them, I have no clue.
Bert, those are great clues. Helpful but not too obvious.
Posted by Annie | January 5, 2013 6:45 AM
Posted on January 5, 2013 06:45
It seems that campanili are the hot topic at this time of year! In his blog "di tutto", Sergio Piovesan presents 3 videos featuring campanili.
http://sp1938.blogspot.com.au/
Posted by Yvonne | January 6, 2013 12:32 AM
Posted on January 6, 2013 00:32
I like campo San Margherita, very nice and lively place in Venice
I recognize San Pantalon.The old campanile of San Margherita. The big one is I Frari??
Thanks for your very interesting blog
Posted by lilichan | January 6, 2013 10:26 AM
Posted on January 6, 2013 10:26
Thanks for the link Yvonne. And happy new year to you too!
Posted by Annie | January 6, 2013 1:31 PM
Posted on January 6, 2013 13:31
Lilichan, thanks to you for your comment and yes, you got all 3 of them. From left to right, the partial tower of Santa Margherita, San Pantalon, and the Frari. Cheers!
Posted by Annie | January 6, 2013 1:34 PM
Posted on January 6, 2013 13:34
Happy New Year, Annie - I'm afraid I don't know Venice well enough to play, but I'd be interested in the answers (and what a variety of towers, all 3 very different from each other!)
Posted by Sandra | January 13, 2013 4:44 AM
Posted on January 13, 2013 04:44