Visiting Venice right now is the opportunity of a lifetime. The city, which invented quarantine — quaranta giorni, or “40 days,” referred to the wait-time for disembarking travelers from distant lands during the Great Plague — would not have been on my list at any other time.
Visiting Venice right now is the opportunity of a lifetime. The city, which invented quarantine — quaranta giorni, or “40 days,” referred to the wait-time for disembarking travelers from distant lands during the Great Plague — would not have been on my list at any other time.