Interesting sights in Venice

Some of the more interesting sights in Venice are not what you would expect. For example, where else would you find garages for boats rather than cars? Cruising around the canals we came across a number of these types of constructions. Generally Venice is a triumph of how people can learn to live in a totally different environment, in this case on a large boggy lagoon. Everywhere there are adaptations, from the thousands of wooden piles the city is built on, steps that lead directly to water, small gardens that fit on edges of the canals, water rather than land transport and or course garages for boats.