To the Piazza

The dark and narrow Mercerie open on the vast and clear Piazza...

Autumn Night

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

Blocked Way

High waters, low bridges... Gondole won't go through!

Libreria Acqua Alta

The famous Venetian "Libreria Acqua Alta" is one of the most original book shops in the world, with its true gondola in the center, to display books on.
What you see on this picture is just the back of the shop, where are displayed comics and old books. Those days, the book shop fully deserves its name! And from time to time, the bookseller, Luigi Frizzo, comes here, in the back, to throw visiting fishes some breadcrumbs.

Acqua Alta

Aqua Alta on the Piazzetta. It starts in the morning, with the "Acqua Alta sirens" (four long strident notes from speakers concealed inside belltowers indicate serious flooding). The water level slowly decreases from three in the afternoon.

Mainstreet

Exile on Mainstreet, it's a strange street to walk down...

Diver

Ready for underwater fishing... in the lagoon.

Danieli

Riva dei Schiavoni, on St Mark's Basin, near the Dodge's palace and the Bridge of Sights, the Danieli Hotel - ex Palazzo Dandolo - is certainly the most famous hotel in Venice. Not only because of the luxury it offers to its guests but also for the famous people, like Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens, Goethe, Richard Wagner, or George Sand and Alfred de Musset, who stayed here.

Chiosco dei giornali

First newspaper in the morning.

Rehearsal

Chiesa San Vidal is the place for music lovers to be. The well known Interpreti Veneziani play Vivaldi, of course, but also Bach, Boccherini, Marin Marais, Bazzini...

Historical Pasta

Not sexy...

The Mole

The Mole and the Piazzetta seen from St Mark's Basin.

On the Beach

The secrets of the summer I will keep
The sands of time will blow a mystery
No one but you and I
Underneath that moonlit sky
Take me back to the place that I know
On the beach
Chris Rea

Fine Settimana

After dinner walk in the quiet Venetian streets...

A Gondola Ride for Kate

A gondola and its gondoliere (obviously, it works better this way) for my friend, and our blog friend, Kate, who happens to be convalescing after a shoulder surgery. I know that you can't access your computer for the time being, Kate, but anyway, this image is for you.
I wish you a good and quick recovery.

Morning Light

Morning has broken, like the first morning...

Sotoportego

Characteristic of the urban architecture in Venice, the "sotoportego" is a good way to link two streets in the city maze. Many of them, like tis one, are covered passages following a canal.

After the Show

"Show is over" and fishmongers have packed up again their unsold fish. In the still wet market hall, painters install their easel.

Spritz

A Spritz. For you my faithful VDP friends.

Devil at the door

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

Ca' Vendramin Calergi

Recently renovated, and thus now freed from the scaffolding and tarpaulin covers which used to hide it, here is the Vendramin Calergi palace. This 15th century palace, built by Mauro Codussi and his sons, has been used since 1959 as the Venice Casino. Richard Wagner died in this beautiful building in February 1883.

Hong Kong in Venice

Within the framework of the Mostra Internazionale di Architettura (which ends November 21)there is an exposition called Hong Kong in Venice, where I've been impressed with this work by Michael Wolf. This is just a small excerpt of his large work presenting people from Hong Kong in their one room homes.

Quotidian Architectures
Michael Wolf

A glimpse in the Arsenal

A glimpse inside the Arsenal. From the vaporetto. The only hole in the wall! It's extremely short, no more than two seconds, but I cant't help peeping inside each time I'm in the vaporetto on the Fondamente Nove.

Bodyguard

The boy and his bodyguard. You can shoot a pic of the boy, but be sure that you will have the man on the same image...

Autumn Sky

Autumn sky over the Piazzetta.