The girls wanted to feed the pigeons, so we did. Then our family took a traghetto (a gondola that goes across the Grand Canal) and explored the Basilica of Santa Maria Della Salute on Wednesday. A plague hit Venice in 1630 and the doge of the time pledged to build a magnificent church dedicated to the Madonna. It did and he did. Over one million piers are used for the foundation of the church and it opened in 1687. We continued on and walked around the Zattere (a promenade along the Guidecca canale. We saw the San Trovaso boat and gondola builders yard. Boats and gondolas are still built and repaired here. The houses are a very different from the rest of Venice and mimic the style popular in the Dolomite mountains where the boat builders originated.
We had a great meal that night for dinner and met a lovely family from London.
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