Viale Garibaldi

Viale Garibaldi, one of the very few green areas in Venice. Well chiefly "green" in summer to tell the truth. You cross it when, stopping at the Vaporetto station "Giardini", you go towards Via Garibaldi and Isola di San Pietro.

Doge's Palace

Heart of the city, the Doge's Palace dates from around year 810. By this time it was nothing more than a stronghold with high walls and defensive towers. The palace as we can admire it nowadays, is the result of a long series of unfortunate events, as fires, and of various reconstructions and improvements...

Grand Canal in Black

Grand Canal in Black...

Riva degli Schiavoni

Large bank at the south of the Castello, la Riva degli Schiavoni stretches from the Palazzo Ducale to the Arsenal. It's a nice and sunny promenade along St Mark's Basin, sometimes packed with tourists...

Santa Maria Assunta

In the north of the island, in the quiet sestiere of Cannaregio, along the wide Fondamente Nove, you will discover Santa Maria Asunta, also known as the Church of the Gesuiti. A huge baroque building from the 17th century.

Sunshine

In winter, every ray of sunshine counts...

Outside the Gates of Eden

At dawn my lover comes to me
And tells me of her dreams
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means
At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what's true
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden
Bob Dylan

Comings and goings

Comings and goings, all day long, on the new "Calatrava" glass and stone bridge, linking the railway station to Piazzale Roma where the bus station is...

Friends

Friends, on their way to school...

Lost Footbridge

In spite of the innumerable footsteps I've left on Venice's ground, there still are some places that I've the surprise to discover. Or maybe did I just forgot them...

Just as our memory does

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Jorge Luis Borges

Valentine's Day - Io e Te Sempre

Io lavoro e penso a te
Torno a casa e penso a te
Le telefono e intanto penso a te
Come stai? E penso a te
Dove andiamo? E penso a te
Lucio Battisti

Happy Valentine's day to all lovers in the world...

Just walk beside me...

“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus

Under the Doge's Palace

Alone under the Doge's Palace gallery...

Image Alain Hamon - Destination Italie

An American in Venice

An American living in Venice, or maybe a Venetian who dreams to go and live in Missoula, Montana... It could have been my clothes line indeed. It's not. Too bad!

Costumed Parade

Every year, people coming from all parts of Italy, parade on Piazza San Marco with days gone by costumes.

Image Alain Hamon - Destination Italie

Venice Carnival 2010 is now open

With the Flight of the Angel (Venetian model Bianca Brandolini d'Adda) from the top of the Campanile down to Piazza San Marco, Venice Carnival 2010 is now open...

Image Alain Hamon - Destination Italie

Closed Door

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
Alexander Graham Bell

Bacino Orseolo

Always buzing with activity, Bacino Orceolo, right near Piazza San Marco, on the other side of the Old Procuraties, is the most important gondolas "parking" and "station" in the very heart of the city.

Daydreaming on the Academia Bridge

Crossing the Academia bridge is always a perfect occasion to take some rest in your day stroll and, leaning over the water as on a ship's rail, observe the activity on the canal and, even further, on St Mark's basin.

Calle Fonte

Calle Fonte, a narrow street near the round Maddalena church in Cannaregio, distinctive for these protuding balconies.

Some steps on the Piazzetta

A little stroll from Doge's palace to Basilica.

Invincible Summer

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus