Venice Grand Canal

the photo was taken outside the train station of Santa Lucia
which is near the lagoon at one end of the canal
while the other end leads to San Marco

the Grand Canal is one of Venice's main waterways.
and has the most traffic of any canal in Venice

due to the fact that it is over 3 km long and is connected
at many points with many other smaller canals

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