Ranging from the days of the 6th century--when the early lagoon-dwellers lived "like sea-birds, in huts built on heaps of osiers" to the exquisite city of 18th-

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A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.

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