On May 17, 1797, at the age of 28, Na=Poleon=Lun Bonaparte, then commander-in-chief of the Italian Front of the French Republic, led 7,000 French men to invade Venice, and the curtain came down on the world's oldest republic.

Along with the name of the Republic, Venice has accumulated great wealth and artistic treasures from the Middle Ages, and even the Jiaotong Hall has not been spared. St. Mark's Junction = All the silver objects of the church were seized, all the gold objects were smelted, and the four bronze horses on the gates of the church were unloaded and sent to Paris, which was the mark of Venice's defeat of Byzantium and the beginning of a new era. It was in this "most beautiful living room in Europe" that everything that symbolized the Venetian republican regime was burned.

Not only that, but after sacking Venice, Na=Po=Lun gave her to Austria. Venice has never been humiliated in the millennia since its founding. Zhang Feng thought that the real Venetian would never be complacent with the praise of Na = Po = Lun.

In 19th-century Europe, with the rise of Romanticism, those who followed Casanova's footsteps to Venice were amazed by the beauty of her past and the decay of reality, and the pursuit of the decadent atmosphere of classical ruins made Venice once again the focus of the world's attention. Artists and writers discussed together, they filled the void with ideals, let imagination decorate reality, and created a goddess of immortality that existed only in color and words, and Venice once again became a city of travelers. However, will Venice, which has lost its independence, be able to return to its former past?

In 1846, railroad tracks were laid between Italy and Venice to connect to trains, in 1910 industrialization and militarization affected Venice, and in World War II, Venice was forced to enter the war. The proud Venetians are no longer isolated from everyone, a thousand years ago they fought to gain sovereign independence from Roman rule, and today they are once again reduced to the province of another sovereign state, no longer having the right to decide their own destiny.

Pride and twilight dominate Venice, they resist the railroad causeway, they resist industrialization, they reject the automobile, they refuse change. The protectionists and modernists argued fiercely, and in the end the protectionists won, with the Venetian slogan "As it was, keep it as it is." ”

Venice has changed, she is no longer the city of the Venetians themselves. Supermarkets are hard to find, mass entertainment facilities are shrinking, and industries unrelated to tourism are closing, and only those who work in tourism or related industries have jobs. Batch after batch of Venetians began to leave their homeland and develop in other places. From 1945 to the present day, Venice has lost more than half of its population, today it is less than 50,000, and it receives 20 million visitors a year.

Tourists have become an unspeakable pain that the left-behind residents are unable to refuse but disgust from the bottom of their hearts.

When Zhang Feng walked back to the cruise ship dock along the bank of the canal, most of the stalls next to the passage were deserted, and what was even colder was actually the eyes of the stall owners. The empty eyes they looked at Zhang Feng but ignored Zhang Feng reminded Zhang Feng of the security guards in every hall in the Governor's Palace, they were wearing thick cotton coats, and their faces were no longer young with a single expression and indifference, and outside the toilet door next to the entrance of the Governor's Palace, the same indifference was written on the empty face of the aunt who was wearing the same cotton coat and sitting on a chair and drowsy.

Zhang Feng hoped that he had come to the wrong season.

However, Zhang Feng can also understand that today's Venice is no longer a cardamom girl in the twelfth century, no longer a beautiful woman in the Renaissance, or even a half-aged when she first met Na = Po = Lun, but Zhang Feng still expects that she still retains a copy of Casanova's uninhibited and wild, the merciless romance everywhere, and the incomparable courage to never give up in a desperate situation.

A row of gondolas is docked at the pier by the sea, and the view from a distance is like a fairyland on the opposite shore of Maggiore = Tang.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the clouds opened and the sun came, and St. Mark's Square immediately changed its painting style.

"Is it finally time to say goodbye to the hazy weather that extends from Como to Venice?" Zhang Feng said to himself, he likes to have a warm sun.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, the seagulls happily rowed by, which was very interesting.

It is said that there are many thieves in Italy, put the camera on the ground, and then turn your back to take a selfie, this is simply the spirit of a big adventurer, you must know that it may be a five-digit loss when you turn around, and Zhang Feng This is not a five-digit loss, it is an immeasurable loss.

"If there is no crowd in the square, it will be a proud work!" Zhang Feng said as he looked at the photo.

Zhang Feng, after walking for most of the day, finally ushered in dinner at the starting point in the afternoon, oh sorry, it was obviously lunch.

Zhang Feng wants the cuttlefish noodles that Venice must not miss, the main sauce is cuttlefish juice, as soon as you hear it, you know that it is a veritable black black and dark cuisine, and it is absolutely black after eating, but the taste is really good!

Zhang Feng, who wiped his mouth clean, repeated these three words.

Seafood pizza, in fact, Zhang Feng has a question about this thing and has not figured it out, it is full of mussels, shrimp, oysters and other shelled seafood, how can it be cut off the whole piece of the mouth?

During the meal, Xiao Hei whistled by, and a sneak of LV, Gucci, and Dior were peddled everywhere in their hands.

After the meal, Zhang Feng had the best gelato gelato, but in fact, the real situation is that Zhang Feng has a rhythm of two or three a day.

In Zhang Feng's view, in fact, except for the area around St. Mark's Square and a few intersections, Venice does not have any special attractions, or the whole Venice is a natural attraction, and it is enough to walk around and rest.

The bouquet of red and white flowers placed in front of the shrine reminded Zhang Feng of the old man in the hat in "Tuscany in the Sun", which is also red and white flowers, and I don't know if it is also to remember his departed love.

Return to the Barefoot Bridge, where you first arrived in Venice.

A gondola rowed, I wanted to take a classic view of Venice, but unfortunately there was a gondola when there was also a bus boat, and it was really difficult to take a good picture of the Grand Canal with only a gondola.

Forget it, don't force it, the weather is average anyway.

Under the bridge, a couple of lovers wandered along the Grand Canal.

Every city wants to go twice, once in spring and one in autumn, and Zhang Feng just caught up with autumn this time.

I watched a program that said that every time you take a pre-determined route, of course, what you see is the scenery that everyone sees, so Zhang Feng deliberately did not open the map this time;