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addPhoto('images/canal.jpg',"Venice is famous for its canals. It is built on an archipelago of more than 100 islands in a shallow lagoon.");
addPhoto('images/canal2.jpg',"In the old center, the canals serve the function of roads, and every form of transport is on water or on foot.");
addPhoto('images/canal3.jpg',"In the 19th century a causeway to the mainland brought a railroad station to Venice, and an automobile causeway and parking lot was added in the 20th century. Beyond these land entrances at the northern edge of the city, transportation within the city remains, as it was in centuries past, entirely on water or on foot. ");
addPhoto('images/canal4.jpg',"One of the many water taxis, the main mode of transportation in and around Venice.");
addPhoto('images/canal5.jpg',"Church of Santa Maria Del Rosario on the Grand Canal.");
addPhoto('images/canal6.jpg',"The water taxi stop at St Marks square, with the tower on left. The Pink and white building above the water taxi sation on left is the Denali hotel, where Mom and Pop Clay stayed.");
addPhoto('images/canal7.jpg',"The classical Venetian boat is the gondola, although it is now mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies, due to its cost.");
addPhoto('images/canal8.jpg',"A gondola headed down one of the many small canals.");
addPhoto('images/canal9.jpg',"The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, commonly known simply as the Salute, is one of the largest churches of Venice and has the status of a minor basilica. It stands at the junction between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di San Marco on the lagoon.");
addPhoto('images/canal10.jpg',"The Rialto Bridge spans the Grand Canal in Venice. It is the oldest bridge across the canal and probably the most famous in the city.");
addPhoto('images/canal11.jpg',"Restaurants and gondolas on the Grand Canal.");
addPhoto('images/canal12.jpg',"A museum along the Grand Canal.");
addPhoto('images/canal13.jpg',"Buildings along the canal.");
addPhoto('images/canal14.jpg',"Views from one of the bridges.");
addPhoto('images/gondola2.jpg',"The gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen, known as gondoliers, who stand facing the prow, or by poling.");
addPhoto('images/gondola3.jpg',"Gondolas poling along the canals.");
addPhoto('images/gondola4.jpg',"More gondola pictures.");
addPhoto('images/piazza3.jpg',"St Marks Square, often known in English by its Italian name Piazza San Marco, is the town square of Venice.");
addPhoto('images/piazza.jpg',"These columns constituted the official gateway to Venice. When there were no official guests in the city, gambling was permitted in the space between the columns. It was also the site of executions in the city.");
addPhoto('images/piazza2.jpg',"The Doges Palace was the residence of the Duke and contained the offices of a number of political institutions.");
addPhoto('images/piazza4.jpg',"St Marks Basilica is the most famous of the churches of Venice and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture. It lies on St Marks Square, adjacent and connected to the Doges Palace and has been the seat of the Patriarch of Venice, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice since 1807.");
addPhoto('images/tower.jpg',"The Campanile, or Bell Tower of  St Marks Basilica in Venice, located in the square (piazza) of the same name.");
addPhoto('images/pigeons.jpg',"St Marks Square, with the infamous pigeon inhabitants. The building ahead is St Marks Basilca, and the building on the right is the Doges Palace.");
addPhoto('images/jeffpigeons.jpg',"Jeff with a friend in the Piazza San Marcos.");
addPhoto('images/jeffpigeons2.jpg',"A pigeon takes a seat on Jeffs head in front of the Doge Palace.");
addPhoto('images/jeffpigeons3.jpg',"And now...I will make the pigeons disappear!");
addPhoto('images/jeffpigeons4.jpg',"Attack of the killer pigeons in Piazza San Marcos.");
addPhoto('images/jeffpigeons5.jpg',"When pigeons attack!");
addPhoto('images/market.jpg',"A food market on the streets of Venice.");
addPhoto('images/street.jpg',"Walking down the streets of Venice.");
addPhoto('images/yellowhouse.jpg',"A house along one of the canals.");
addPhoto('images/jewghetto.jpg',"A street in the jewish ghetto section of Venice.");
addPhoto('images/jewghetto2.jpg',"The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice in which Jewish people were required to live under the Venetian Republic. The Ghetto is an area of the Cannaregio sestiere of Venice. It is named for the iron foundries (geto) located there in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.");
addPhoto('images/jewghetto3.jpg',"A synagogue entrance in the Jewish Ghetto.");
addPhoto('images/jewghetto4.jpg',"In 1516, the Venetian Senate voted to compel all Jews in the city to move to the area known as the Ghetto Nuovo. Surrounded by canals, the area was only linked to the rest of the city by two bridges, which were closed at night and during certain Christian festivals, when all Jews were required to stay in the Ghetto.");
addPhoto('images/jewghetto5.jpg',"A Holocaust Memorial in the square of the Jewish Ghetto.");
addPhoto('images/jewghetto6.jpg',"The Jewish Ghetto area had such a dense population that buildings rose to six or more stories. There were numerous benevolent institutions, and it is still home to five synagogues connected by a secret corridor.");
addPhoto('images/jewghetto7.jpg',"A synagogue door in the Jewish Ghetto.");