Another , much older , slice of history tin all the same endure glimpsed on a wall inward Dorsoduro. This fragmentary German linguistic communication street-sign , if genuine , must engagement to the Second World War German linguistic communication describe (or peradventure fifty-fifty the Austrian describe a hundred years earlier). It was shown to me several years ago; since together with thus it has got increasingly illegible but yous tin all the same simply nigh brand out the discussion Platzkommandant.
And here's roughly other slice of wall-history - a plaque erected yesteryear Gabriele D'Annunzio , patriot , airplane pilot , poet together with eccentric when he was inward Venice betwixt daring airborne assaults on Austrian territory during the First World War. He declares the Austrian shell to endure a sign of the shame of this 'perpetual enemy'. This monument tin endure seen inward Campiello Albrizzi.
There are a release of cannonballs inward Venice dating dorsum to the 1849 siege of Venice yesteryear the Austrians. This 1 is embedded inward the church building of San Salvador , close the Rialto.
These curiosities together with many to a greater extent than interesting together with hidden spots inward Venice are featured inward the guidebook , along alongside directions for walks off the beaten track.
