• Wandering around very early in the morning, before the swarm of tourists invades Venice and transfigures it in the amusement park it looks today.
Category Archives: The other Venice
#91 From one year to the next
• Wishing all of you out there the best for the New Year, may it bring you what you are looking for.
#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
#85 Movida (the Venetian way)
• Like many other cities of this beginning of the 21st century, Venice too has its (sort of) nightlife district, for which the center of gravity is Campo S. Margherita, a large and irregularly shaped square located not far from the … Continue reading
#83 A fragile beauty
• What to say about the gondola that has not already been said for the millionth time? Too bad, the latest news related to this intriguing boat are not the ones you’d like to hear. Obviously, the root of 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
#79 A frenzy of colors
• A legend just as well accepted as little verified, explains the vivid colouration of Burano houses with the need for local fishermen in past times to be able to spot their own home even in foggy or rainy days, … Continue reading
#78 S. Nicolò, and a funny seagull
• May is one of those times of the year when weather conditions can make the light particularly beautiful in the lagoon. As in this case, where after a few days of rain and wind, the clean fresh air from … Continue reading
#77 Hidden beauties
• When I get tired of the endless crowds of visitors and tourists who throng the most popular spots, I often start to wander into less frequented areas of the city; as for a spell, alleys turn suddenly empty and … Continue reading
#73 Wind and rain
On a night of wind and rain, staring at the moon on the way back home. ⇒ Visit Imaginevenice.com
#72 Big ships, bigger brawls
• As soon as the cruise season reopens, a separate, and even more flammable, chapter in the broader debate on tourism in Venice, regains popularity: the access to the harbor for large cruise ships. It is undeniable that the entry … Continue reading
#70 Pure simple happiness
• One last carnival photo before I go back to shoot everyday life in Venice. A child runs happily in his eighteenth-century young nobleman costume, his red cloak merrily shines in the sun of a bright February day. No one … Continue reading