This magnificent fellow stands a lonely watch outside the sculpture museum on Torcello, the quiet little island where the first Venetians built a homestead to hide from the raiding Lombards and their ilk. To think of all that’s come and gone for the Venetian republic since an anonymous sculptor liberated him from a marble blank centuries ago…
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I see the sun should shine on Thursday, time to get away to Torcello perhaps?
Yes! One of these days I hope to see it on a snowy day.