VENICE

Venice is popularly known as a romantic, melancholy city. But insatiable? Yet, this latter characteristic defines Venice more aptly than anything else.It was in this spirit that Venice emerged, through merchants who undertook arduous and perilous journeys so that they could offer for sale the most exquisite, precious objects and who risked everything for the chance of amassing even more gold. Only against this background is it possible to understand why the lagoon city was able to develop into the trading center of the Mediterranean and how it became a cosmopolitan city whose wealth was the envy of princes throughout the world.