Grand Canal and Church of La Salute, Venice, Italy, 1937

About this postcard

Gondoliers pole their black gondolas across the green water of the Grand Canal, with mooring poles standing in rows along the palazzi banks. The domed church of Santa Maria della Salute closes the view in the distance, the subject named in the card's four-language caption. The Salute was built in the 17th century as a votive church after the plague of 1630, and its dome has anchored this stretch of the canal ever since. The sender, writing from a hotel window, described "water, water everywhere" and little narrow streets.