Wisely the sleeping apartments face the Grand Canal, with a garden intervening; were they on the Piazza side sleep would be very difficult.

But all the great State rooms overlook the Piazza.

The Palace is open on fixed days and shown by a demure flunkey in an English bowler hat, but it should be the last place to be visited by the sightseer.

Its only real treasures--the Tintorettos illustrating the life of S.
Mark--were not visible on the only occasion on which I ventured in.
Beneath these three buildings--the two Procuratie and the Fabbrica Nuova--runs an arcade where the Venetians congregate in wet weather and where the snares for tourists are chiefly laid by the dealers in jewellery, coral, statuary, lace, glass, and mosaic.

But the Venetian shopkeepers are not clever: they have not the sense to leave the nibbler alone.