| There's a pretty nice view from the doorway of the church of Santa Maria della Salute, built in Venice in the mid-17th century as an offering for the city's deliverance from an outbreak of the plague. Constructed atop a platform of 100,000 wooden piles driven vertically into the sea bed, it took about 50 years to build, and was completed in 1681. [To see more doorways, visit the "Portes de Lundi" at Louis la Vache's meme.] |