Feste - Part Two

The Bridge of Sighs has been released from it's cost of blue plastic and there were lots of tourists sailing
                                                                  under it yesterday 

                                                     

After watch the race I walked down to Piazza San Marco to watch the Angel and Three Kings come out of the clock tower on the hour.  This is how the hour was originally seen but the wooden statues were being destroyed by the atmosphere so they were removed and replaced with drums that display the time.  The mechanism was left in place and twice a year at Epiphany and Ascension day they are replaced.  It was lovely because as they went back inside the Italians all clapped.