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Island of Torcello
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by roger
… the first strong impression which the spectator receives from the whole scene is, that whatever sin it may have been which has on this spot been visited with so utter a desolation, it could not at least have been ambition.
· John Ruskin, describing the island of Torcello near Venice II (1853)