• And there we are, once again. For the short time of few days, the frenzy of carnival, hopefully, will wash away all our anxieties, worries and fears. Like this merry couple, let’s enjoy at most the feast. p.s. And … Continue reading
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#90 Hidden beauties/2
• September; likely, the busiest month in town. Sorry, definitely……… I walk surrounded by an endless and noisy multitude of tourists, feeling overwhelmed and hopeless, mumbling how bad it is and how worse it can get year after year. Few … Continue reading
#89 A troubled year, an uncertain future
• The year that will end in a few months has been one of the most troubled and difficult for Venice since a long time. The controversy on large cruise ships and the water traffic in the city, after the … Continue reading
#82 Stardust memories
• As the opening of Venice Film Festival gets more and more closer, with its usual corollary of gossip about movies and celebrities, memories of my adolescence related to this event resurface and become sharper day after day. I remember … Continue reading
#81 Ponte di Rialto
• Compared to the centuries-old history of Venice, Rialto Bridge can be considered one of the youngest symbols, though perhaps the most famous. What is today one of the most well known landmarks in the world, was born as a … Continue reading
#71 One of a kind open-air lounge
• On one of those first sunny days of late winter, when the sun slowly starts again to warm up, the square immediately resumes its best-known aspect of an amazing and unique open-air lounge. All cafes get suddenly busy with … Continue reading
#69 Campo S. Margherita
• It’s not easy to find trees in Venice squares, all available space is paved and plants have no way to expand their roots. This one photographed in backlight on a sunny winter morning is located in Campo S. Margherita, … Continue reading
#64 A magnet and a scenery
• A gondolier stands in front of Doge’s Palace waiting for customers to take onboard his black boat; next to him, a tourist gets the ten millionth souvenir snapshot with the famous building in the background as eternal testimony of … Continue reading
#63 On how I found joy on a gray day
• Most of the times I’m in town, I can’t avoid going to Piazza San Marco; and the reason is that this place, which I photographed countless times, is always an inexhaustible source of amazing images. Here, in a gloomy … Continue reading
#61 Madonna della Salute/3
• Faces, expressions and gestures of the participants in this celebration, reflect an intimate and profound devotion, something that can be brought to surface by only a few genuinely popular events such as the one that takes place in the … Continue reading
#58 A vote of thanksgiving
• In 1630, as a votive offering for the city’s deliverance from the pestilence, the government of the Serenissima Republic of Venice decided to build a church dedicated to Our Lady of Health. The project was entrusted to the architect … Continue reading
#55 The sound of silence
• It takes few steps to get away from the noisy crush of tourists in S. Marco and Rialto and rediscover the charming venetian atmosphere we all know very well, made of silence and sound of footsteps in the distance. … Continue reading