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Many lampposts in Venice sport a headless eagle along with St Mark's winged lion.

That's because the lampposts aren't Italian or Venetian.

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https://historywalksvenice.com/2024/12/a-headless-eagle/

Headless eagles on Venetian lampposts — small signs of big events in the past.

History Walks in Venice

Victory, up there, far away.

Why do we have to suffer such sunsets? Can't something be done about it?

The Stolpersteine are small memorials for the victims of the Holocaust, placed where they lived before being murdered.

A bridge going nowhere.

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Stumbling stones

Elia Gino Musatti was a Venetian Jew, born in 1877 into a well-off family. His father was a doctor, and his brother a lawyer.

When Northern Italy came under Nazi occupation in 1943, he was in hospital and therefore evaded the first round of deportations of the Venetian Jews.

However, in October 1944, the Nazis went through the hospitals too, and arrested all the Jews they found.

Musatti was on train n. 41T for the concentration camp in Ravensbrück in November 1944. He did not survive.

Today a stumbling stone was placed in front of the door of his home in Salizada dei Greci, in Castello.

Blue Venice

On the streets of Venice

This weekend is the Redentore Feast in Venice.

This shot is from a few years back, with people waiting for the fireworks on a bridge.

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