Walks Inside Venice

20/04/2025

RISI E BISI - green peas risotto, traditional Easter recipe in Venice. The Doge ate it for lunch, and me too!!

07/04/2025

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18/01/2025

06/12/2024

Palazzo Pesaro, in the St Mark’s district, was for many years home to the famous Spanish painter, inventor, and stage designer Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (Granada 1871 – Venice 1949).
He chose to live in a historic Gothic home that soon became his atelier of photography, painting, stage, and textile design, frequented by Eleonora Duse, Isadora Duncan, Sara Bernhardt, and other famous artists.
The Fortuny Museum displays original furnishings, precious tapestries, a wide range of objects and materials purchased in Western and Eastern countries during his trips.
The museum also hosts the silk fabrics designed and printed by Mariano himself.
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06/12/2024

Palazzo Pesaro,  in the St Mark’s district, was for many years home to the famous Spanish painter, inventor, and stage designer Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (Granada 1871 – Venice 1949).
He chose to live in a historic Gothic home that soon became his atelier of photography, painting, stage, and textile design, frequented by Eleonora Duse, Isadora Duncan, Sara Bernhardt, and other famous artists.
The Fortuny Museum displays original furnishings, precious tapestries, a wide range of objects and materials purchased in Western and Eastern countries during his trips.
The museum also hosts the silk fabrics designed and printed by Mariano himself.
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07/10/2024

Yesterday Piazza San Marco was so crowded, partly flooded, invaded by works in progress. Still, light was beautiful at 4.00 pm...

27/08/2024

THINGS YOU CAN DO while sitting by a canal in Venice:
Enjoying the view
Painting
Reading a book, possibly about Venice
Drinking
Taking photos
Meditating
Chatting with your partner
Bird-watching
THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T DO:
Eating anything might attract voracious water-rats and aggressive fearless seagulls
Wearing beachwear (Venice isn't a beach...)
Dropping rubbish in or by the canal!
Jumping in the canal
Washing your feet in the not so clean waters

24/08/2024

20/07/2024

REDENTORE NIGHT - tonite is the night!

13/06/2024

ANGELS - playing trumpets on top of Baroque churches, blessing private homes from Gothic portals, fallen from the top of belltowers, ornating elaborate wellheads...these winged, gentle beings are ubiquitous in Venice, a city traditionally founded on an Announciation Day of more than 15 centuries ago.
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06/06/2024

The attractive mosaic of Venice's brick walls can inspire your paintings and photos. Constantly struggling with the natural elements - salt water, tide, wind - they witness the passage of time and the uniqueness of Venice's history. Their warm hues play with the canal reflections. Their surface enshrines stones, windows, inscriptions. The colors of peeling plaster add emotion and personality. You'll never find two identical walls!

04/06/2024

BIENNALE 2024 - Central Pavilion mesmerized our attention with an explosion of colors and graphic shapes: Mexican artist and architect Eduardo Terrazas, Iraqi calligrapher Rafa el-Nasiri, and Iranian designer Mohammad Eshaei blend their native lands' traditions with Modernism into a joyfully creative language.