Peter Ackroyd's Venice

The City as Architecture (1x1)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 06, 2009

Peter walks in the footsteps of English writer John Ruskin, and traces the development of the city’s buildings from its earliest beginnings through to the emergence of a uniquely Venetian architectural aesthetic, formed by the practicalities of building on – and defending against – the ever-encroaching waters. And what does the city do with the dead? He discovers the resting place of many poets and writers on the Isola di San Michele.