This must be Venice

but it's not.

The Venetian Resort and Casino Hotel, 2009

If you're in Las Vegas, and you've gambled all of your money and you can't take that trip to Venice you so hoped for then you might want to come to The Venetian Resort and Casino Hotel.

The hotel is impressive with a moat and gondolas surrounding the premises and the hotel is not even sinking.

But to tell you the truth, I would still rather be in the real Venice, tracing Aschenbach's footsteps.

Art_A_Fact

Many people, including yours truly, have been thrilled and gotten chills at seeing New York's Statue of Liberty, Chicago's skyline, Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral, and as a child riding the only ride over and Over and OVER I was ever interested ... Coney Island's Thunderbolt roller coaster .

I still get the same excitement, the same goose pimple feelings when I see this building with its winged arches, numerous construction cranes dancing over the building's roof and its Las Vegas, Gaudi like flamboyance.

I can't give you a better hint than what I wrote and if you guessed la Sagrada Familia give yourself a 6 pointed gold star.

Sagrada Familia
Barcelona, 2008

The picture here was taken from the opposite side of the pond from where I took another photo in a post called A Placid Laze.

I haven't seen any pictures taken from this location but, that is not to say there have been none.

I hope you see its beauty, feel what I feel and experience a breath-taking appreciation of true art.

Alas, just my humble opinion.