Aqua Alta, this morning at 9

With Alain, this morning on Piazza San Marco...

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

Some steps west of Campo San Polo, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, with its imposing architecture, contains so much chefs d'oeuvre that it can be considered as a Renaissance museum.

Rio di San Giovanni Laterano

I have always loved this narrow house, surrounded by water on three of its sides, right near San Giovanni and Paolo, between the twin canals of the Rio di San Giovanni Laterano...

The Lagoon Towards Marghera

Seen from the western part of Venice, the skyline, over the lagoon, of the industrial area of Porto Marghera.

Anianus the Cobbler

On the little and nice Campo San Tomà, you will discover la Scuola dei Calegheri, build for the shoemakers corporation in the middle of the 15th Century. Over the main entrance, a relief by Pietro Lombardo depicts Venice patron saint San Marco healing Anianus the cobbler.

Autumn on Campo San Polo

Nice moment on a terrace at Campo San Polo...

Il Ponte delle Tette

Do you know why this bridge,situated in San Polo Sestiere, and finally rather commonplace in Venice, is famous?

Santa Sofia

Santa Sofia, almost disappears behind the new houses built after the creation, around 1870, of the Strada Nuova, this large avenue parallel to the Grand Canal in the Cannaregio Sestiere.

Rio del Gaffaro

A little stroll at night in the Santa Croce Sestiere, near Piazzale Roma and Giardino Papadopoli.

Let us eat, drink and be merry

San Nicolo dei Mendicoli. A place that I like, at the tip of the Dorsoduro, in the south of Venice. On one side of the campanile, under the large and ancient clock a slab dated from 1764 reads "Lethi Vive Memor Fugit Hora"...Live mindful of death , time is fleeing.
So... Let us eat, drink and be merry!

The Venetian Gondolier

Here rest the weary oar! - soft airs
Breathe out in the o'erarching sky;
And Night! - sweet Night - serenely wears
A smile of peace; her noon is nigh.

Where the tall fir in quiet stands,
And waves, embracing the chaste shores,
Move o'er sea-shells and bright sands,-
Is heard the sound of dipping oars.

Swift o'er the wave the light bark springs,
Love's midnight hour draws lingering near:
And list! - his tuneful viol strings
The young Venetian Gondolier.

Lo! on the silver-mirrored deep,
On earth, and her embosomed lakes,
And where the silent rivers sweep,
From the thin cloud fair moonlight breaks

Soft music breathes around, and dies
On the calm bosom of the sea;
Whilst in her cell the novice sighs
Her vespers to her rosary.

At their dim altars bow fair forms,
In tender charity for those,
That, helpless left to life's rude storms,
Have never found this calm repose.

The bell swings to its midnight chime,
Relieved against the deep blue sky!-
Haste! - dip the oar again! - 'tis time
To seek Genevra's balcony.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

San Polo by Shell Sherree

From a reader and blogger in Brisbane, Australia... Thank you so much Shell Sherree, that's great. I'm honoured and chuffed!
Here is the original pic and here Shell Sherree's blog.

Squero di San Trovaso

One of the lasts gondolas yards in Venice, near San Trovaso Church in the Dorsoduro.

Venice Carnival 2010

Time to prepare your masks, hats and 18th century costumes for next Venice Carnival, in just three month now, on February 6th to 14th...

Gesuiti

In the north of Venice, in a quiet part of busy Cannaregio, along the wide Fondamente Nove canal, you will discover Santa Maria Asunta, also known as the Church of the Gesuiti. A huge baroque building from the 17th century, with a facade by Giovanni Battista Fattoretto.

Saturday Evening at San Giacomo di Rialto

A nice place to end the week with a bunch of jolly good fellows...