I chose sites on the main island of Venice based on 3 things:
1. Dan Brown's Inferno - The middle of the book takes the characters to Venice where they run (a lot) through the island to escape enemies. Robert Langdon stops at small churches and several bridges before reaching San Marco Square, where he and his lady partner cause a scene escaping the Palazzo Ducale. Luckily, Brown fans are great researchers and have composed great interactive maps: http://www.insideinferno.com/en/venice/city-map
2. The Thief Lord - based on the novel by Cornelia Funke, a movie I watched COUNTLESS times in high school, although they were set off the main island when they weren't prancing around the square. The story does focus on 4 statues, so I'm looking for a Lion (#easy), Neptune, Mermaid, Man on a Horse.
3. MiMOA - mainly to see the modern architecture integrated around the city. Although not the most contemporary structure, I'm looking forward to the Venezuelan Pavilion from the 1956 Biennale by Scarpa, mostly out of shameless pride.
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| Medieval Venice, where divisions are plainly marked. The fort walls are visible. |
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| Modern Venice - the color coding on this map sort of resembles the divisions from the medieval map, except the arsenal walls seem to be a watershed... suspicious. |
How did your literary/filmic inspired quest go? I am intrigued by the suspicion about the arsenal walls. Did you investigate this?
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