Venice

Venice Map

Its a map from 1904..... but....  Venice hasn't changed that much in all these years....

A couple "Fashion Shots" From Venice, 1923

Gerald Murphy, Ginny Carpenter, Cole Porter, and Sara Murphy, in Venice Italy, 1923

John and Nancy Fry, in Venice Italy, 1923

Venice Travel Poster

Medieval Venice

Medieval Venice

Keepers, particularly American Keepers (of which I am one), should keep in mind that European Cities have a long and fascinating history, and they can play this up in the course of playing through Horror on the Orient Express.

One of my favourite scenes in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the Library Scene.  It totally plays up the fact that Venice is an old city, and that things like churches are sometimes reused for other things, like the library.  Does X mark the spot?  Is there hidden knowledge in a crypt under the library?

What kind of other knowledge is hidden in out of the way places like that?  What kind of deviant cults that seek out the Simulacrum might exist in Venice?  Are there Deep Ones in the waters?

Dont forget that Italian count Boniface of Montferrat negotiated with Venice, to transport 33,500 crusaders.  This agreement required a full year of preparation on the part of the Venetians to build ships and train the sailors who would man them.  What came back on the ships afterwards?

As Indiana Jones so famously said "I love Venice"

Venice is a city in north east Italy on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges.  It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po and Piave Rivers. Its famous for having a Church thats been converted into a Temple where Professor Henry Jones Jr discovered that sometimes "X" does mark the spot.

In July 1926 the British "First Flotilla" visited Venice