Venice - Palace of the Doges & Bridge of Sighs

After our trip to Burano, we jumped on the water bus and came back to Venice. We toured the Palace of the Doges and the Venetian Senate and also saw the courtroom made famous by Venice's "Terrible Ten" - a group that had a history of doling out large sentences to Venetians who engaged in small crimes. They would often sentence Venetians to large prison sentences and torture in the palace area and once sentenced, the Venetians would have to cross over a canal (on the bridge of sighs) to the prison. The bridge of sighs is called that because many prisoners would sigh as they looked through the openings, out at the Adriatic sea knowing that it would be their last glimpse of freedom. J took a picture of what it must have been like to look out of the bridge (see below)

After a very full day, we got back on the train to Milan. The next day (Monday), I got to sleep in and then Jason took me on a tour of the manufacturing plant here and we had dinner in Monza. It was nice to just have a lo-key day after all that go,go,go!