Venice hides an unusual amount of its best architecture in the act of climbing between floors. Where most cities treat
Most visitors who stumble across the fruit and vegetable boat moored at the foot of Ponte dei Pugni assume it’s
Stand across the Grand Canal from Ca’ Dario and, curse aside, you’ll notice something a photograph often flattens out: the
Long before Venice became a city people visit for its art and its water, it was, for the better part
Most visitors learn the word “campo” within a day of arriving in Venice — it’s unavoidable, printed on nizioleti at
Most visitors assume every bridge in Venice belongs to the city, the way a bridge would anywhere else. It’s a
When Oasis arrived in Venice for the world premiere of Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, the story was never
Ask most visitors what a Venetian palace was for, and they’ll picture something purely residential — a noble family’s grand
Spend a single afternoon wandering Venice without a fixed destination and you’ll lose count of how many times you turn
Ask a Venetian where the word “bacaro” comes from and you’ll get at least three confident, completely different answers —
Fly into Venice, or simply look down from a bridge on a sunny afternoon, and the color that hits you
Ask most visitors what a “scuola” is in Venice and you’ll get a blank look, or a guess about school
Look down instead of up on almost any Venetian canal and you’ll notice something that rarely makes it into guidebooks:
Somewhere between a church and a private chapel sits a category of Venetian building most visitors never learn the word
Walk along almost any minor canal in Venice, away from the Grand Canal’s palazzi, and you’ll notice something that would
New visitors to Venice usually arrive expecting one boat: the gondola. Within about ten minutes of actually being here, that
Venice trains you to look down, or straight ahead — at the pavement for the next nizioleto, at a doorway,
It’s easy to assume Venice has always looked the way it looks today — pale stone arches curving over green
Stand in almost any campo in Venice and look past the marble doorways and the Istrian stone trim, and you’ll
Long before Venice had street numbers, or even reliable street names, its shopkeepers solved a much older problem: how do
I'm Igor Scomparin. I have been a Venice graduated and licensed tour guide since 1997. I will take you through the secrets, the history and the art of one of the most beautiful cities in the World.
