Ca' Venetia - The Venetian Retreat

29/05/2020

25/10/2019

Venice says it will start charging day-trippers to enter its packed historic centre from next summer, with fees as high as €10 planned for peak season.

03/08/2019

We have just taken delivery of a new super quiet, super efficient AC for the apartment. We are now a two AC household 😁

30/06/2019

30/06/2019

http://www.seevenice.it/en/gondola-builders-in-venice-the-courage-of-tramontins-sisters/?fbclid=IwAR3cyCOBjM9-hX18v2Nv_4s7TcfJuYaoLsDJoIj3QrVMwL0lb1G7YdsHYuw

Gondola builders and the true icon of Venice Gondola builders: they are the ones that turned the gondola into the most iconic image of Venice. Is there still anybody that doesn’t connect it to Venice? Sometimes improperly used to address any Venetian boat, including motor water taxis —heretical,...

30/06/2019

Magical sunset in Venice

26/06/2019

• ci sei •

04/06/2019

Buongiorno...lovely sunny June here in !

20/05/2019

"Chiunque sia stato qui porta nel suo cuore il gioiello più prezioso, l'immagine di Venezia."
Mieczysław Kozłowski.

08/05/2019

La storia di Casanova più vera oltre le luci della ribalta della Venezia settecentesca

28/03/2019

Good Morning from

12/09/2018

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05/09/2017

25/07/2017

This lovely picture was taken by the Williams family while enjoying dinner on their first night.

16/06/2017

Venice is the only city in Italy that has its own distinct bar culture: the bacari. Similar to the tapas bars of Spain, they took off during World War II as Venice’s extremely poor residents couldn’t afford food with their wine. Barkeepers would serve wine and allow customers to bring their own food...

14/02/2017

Buon San Valentino da Venezia ❤ to our guests both past and future...

09/11/2016

23/08/2016

Venice is not just a stage set. It is also a city with a resident population, which has productive activities, transportation and services. But how does the “Venice…

22/08/2016

Burano, an island in the Venice Lagoon, is often overlooked by visitors to the famous canal city. But Orna O'Reilly reveals why the island - which last week came second in a Forbes most beautiful places list, is worth a trip.

20/03/2016

The frittelle di San Giuseppe recipe.

03/03/2016

E' proprio lei... la nostra splendida Veneiza

01/03/2016

☛ / Special Carnival/ Feb 29, 2016: The unsuspected story of a secret garden in Venice
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Close to the Santi Apostoli square at the end of the Strada Nuova, hidden behind tall walls, lays a secret garden: the "Giardino di Ca' Morosini".

The garden of Ca' Morosini is now taken care of by Dominican nuns, but in the past this marvellous place in the heart of Venice had disappeared for almost 200 years!

The area on which we now see the garden, could already be seen as a cultivated field in the famous De' Barberi map of Venice of the 1500. Property of the Erizzo family, on the side of the canal (rio di s.s. apostoli) the garden gave access to a private casino designed by Palladio and decorated with Veronese's frescos.

However, the garden was acquired in the XVII century by the Morosini family, who bought the whole lot and chose to completely destroy the ancient buildings, as well as replacing the garden with an enclosure for wild and exotic animals. Only in 1829 the heirs of the family decided to transform the "family zoo" back into a garden. Even though of relatively recent creation, the garden respects the traditional scheme of venetian gardens, where ornamental plants blend together with fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Beautiful plants of roses, passion flowers and American ivy can be seen growing in two arbours, while the garden itself hosts a great variety of plants and trees as calycanthus, hydrangeas, iris, petunias, snapdragons, mimosas, dahlias, palms, apricots, kakis, figs, pomgranates, olive trees and cypresses.

Curious fact:
- At the end of the of the '500, Francesco Sansovino (you might remember his name from a previous Venice360 about the Marciana Library) listed all the main gardens in Venice: 28 in Dorsoduro, 29 in S.Polo, 39 in S.Marco, 46 in Canareggio and 50 in S.Croce, for a total of 192 gardens. The list did not take into account vegetable gardens, public gardens, and gardens belonging to religious orders

28/02/2016

Cava – Coffee was known to Venetian mercanti (spice merchants) and the spezieri (call them spice experts, for now) from the 12th century !! Back then, polvere de cava – this dark powder…

16/02/2016

Read our guide to the best places to drink in Dorsoduro, Venice.