Venice, Italy: The Doge's Palace - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

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[doge]

Wow so big such rich much wealth very beautiful

[TheRealDVairsoft]

Many prestige. Much power. Such luxury. In all seriousness, I loved Venice when I visited last summer. Beautiful 

[BloodyDebris]

wow
such palace
very artistic
many doges

[princessmarshella]

wow
such palace
much fancy
so king
much history
wow

[ArmyOfYawheh]

Wow, so wealth, such doge of venice, much italy, wow

[Mairou]

wow... such palace
   many huge
very middle age

[RyuBlue]

Of course the comments would be full of the "Doge" meme. :D

That being said, love Venice, totally have to visit there someday.

[rz]

the most beautiful dogehouse I have ever seen

[QueenVelveeta]

The Doge's Palace is spectacular in person. You can't imagine the beauty.

[maxington]

A lot of information in a concise video! Thank you

[jaunaryst]

Doge will unite humanity under his flag. Such wow.

[ruffysmom]

Touring that prison shook me up. Bad energy. A lot of suffering happened there.

[robkunkel]

Reading Roger Crowley, this video puts color to his wonderful books about Venice and trading. Thanks. Rob (like #400). A nice video.

[TheTopStriker]

Not only was the Doge man's best friend, he was also very rich, entrepreneurial genius.

[sheruffa]

Venezia è semplicemente inquantificabile! :)

[toosinbeymen]

It'd be a good idea to check out Daron Acemoglu's book Why Nations Fail because he cites Venice as an example. In its early days, it had policies that encouraged banks to finance trade expeditions for the rich and middle class alike. But later on, these rules changed due to infighting in the city. Eventually only the rich families were able to get enough money together to arrange the expeditions and Venice was on the decline.

[charlespritchard]

I wonder if Rick Steves knows about the doge meme.

[stacksflat]

such dynasties never died out they simply built bigger castles all over the world, they are the true power brokers of this world and will stop at nothing to hold on to it

[ritankarsasmal]

What time was it when Rick was giving the intro? i can see a little number of people behind...that area is almost empty...

[toosinbeymen]

Venice's main claim to fame was its innovative banking sector. Doges were elected by the aristocrats in the city much like they were in Florence and other Italian cities - to make the city and its residents richer.