• Via Garibaldi once used to be a canal until 1807, when it became an ally originally named Via Eugenia in honor of Eugene Beauharnais, the thenFrench viceroy of Italy. It was onlyin 1866,when the Italian armyentered the cityand Venicewas annexedto thekingdom of Italy, that the name changed into the actual one to celebrate the famous architectof the unification ofItaly.
It's one of the few areas of Venice where it still remains partly intact the genuine and popular atmosphere of the city that once was, filled with the faces and voices of ordinary people busy to accomplish all common daily tasks.
You will not find here hordes of tourists struggling to keep the guide's pace nor trendy bars and celebrated fashion stores.
Instead, you might be lucky enough to sit for a moment of relax close to an elder local. They are often mouthy and you may get some valuable "insights" about where to have the best, and cheapest, fish meal just around the corner.
I’m glad to see this street caters to those of us, now elderly, that need to sit down occasionally (and observe the passing life….). Great capture. And, I have to say, he has that typical Italian look on his face….don’t what that means…. ;OD
Ha ha ha! “..that typical Italian look on his face..” To be honest, I don’t know either what it could mean! Maybe just “gimme a break with that damn camera”….
I’m glad to see this street caters to those of us, now elderly, that need to sit down occasionally (and observe the passing life….). Great capture. And, I have to say, he has that typical Italian look on his face….don’t what that means…. ;OD
Ha ha ha! “..that typical Italian look on his face..” To be honest, I don’t know either what it could mean! Maybe just “gimme a break with that damn camera”….