News of Venice, Exhibitions of Art, Festivals, Events
The highlight of everyone’s trip to the island of Murano is a visit to a real glass furnace. They are hot, noisy, busy places with the choreographed dance of the glass workers. But here’s how an abandoned furnace looks, too…
It seems that Venice citizens and tourist alike can’t get a break. With a record number of high water (aqua alta) days in 2014 the newspapers and il direttore del Centro Maree, Paolo Canestrelli, (the weather man) were constantly warning…
Christmas in Venice revealed the Grinch of Christmas to be the city government of Venice which had threatened everyone that there would be no holiday lighting. There simply was not money in the city coffers for this “luxury”. The merchants…
500Euro Fine for Luggage? Really?: Venice has countless problems, like Mayor Orsoni is being under house arrest, the MOSES project under investigation for bribes, global warming, high water, overflow of tourists, lack of jobs for the young, high taxes, invasion…
Could you be a Venetian? What would your average college do if the day of graduation, the location of the ceremony was filled with water and it was windy and raining? Think about it: Cancelled immediately, maybe the school would…
They say that copying is the sincerest form of flattery and since Las Vegas and Macau have already successfully build replicas of Venice, China was a little behind – but they have just opened “Venice of the East”. But no it…
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A couple of weeks ago, we revisited the Osteria senza Oste in the beautiful hills of the Prosecco vineyards of Santo Stefano di Valdobbiadene. Osteria an Overnight Sensation Well that is we tried to visit. It seems that the publicity…
It’s Saturday and all our suppliers have taken the day off, so we are playing tourists. There are 6 large cruise ships in the Maritime harbor, meaning there are thousands of tourist for the day. Since I’ve never been there,…