Spiraling Staircase p16

View from the Top

At the top of the fancy spiraling staircase you can see the orange-tiled tops of all the houses. You can aslo see all the tower cranes (my equipment professor would be proud.) Its a pretty nice view, above most everythign in Venice. You see all the domes and bell towers sticking up above the rest of the buildings, and get a perspective of how narrow the streets really are. Every once in a while you'll see the rooftop gardens, or courtyards of the little apartment buildings with mini tropical-jungles among the cityscape.



Staircase to ...?

A good view, thats what. You walk and walk through the skinny streets of Venice and suddenly come upon this. You think "whoa, where did this come from? What is it for? Well, its obviously a staircase to get from one floor to another. Its just so much more elaborate than any other building around it. It has the balconies that seem fit for the Ca's that face the Grand Canal. But no, You just get a view of the next building about 15 yards away. (Though there is a beautiful little garden exploding out of the window boxes of said building.)



Rooftops

At the second to top level of the out-of-place staircase, you get this view. I think mom got a pretty cool picture.