venezia blog

27 July 2015  

    Today is the publication day of my children's picture book Ciao, Sandro! , featuring illustrations by Luciano Lozano, so it seemed l...

With some regional visitors in town for Carnevale, gondoliers temporarily returned to their stations this past week. But in the weeks before...

Among the many things those 75% of total visitors to Venice who stay only a few hours miss are the live performances in venues like Teatro...

Workers construct the ice skating rink in Campo San Polo last Friday, while, at left,  a small colony of orange plastic sea lions await th...

One of Mistero e Magia's two proprietors, Alberto De Curti, performs a trick for a young visitor from France Venice has long been ...

In Italy the Christmas season officially ended yesterday, with the Feast of the Epiphany: another national holiday. Good kids woke to...

Luna Park, or what everyone who lives in Venice refers to as simply " le giostre " (or, "the rides"), has returned to...

The jewel box interior of the Teatro Goldoni The Teatro Goldoni, a short walk from Piazza San Marco, has been reconstructed many times s...

The preschool Pan di Zenzero occupies part of the building at left; services for adults who are known in Italian as i diversabili (the ...

A fleet of sanpierote moored in the Darsena Grande Yesterday was the first day of a three-day "open house" at the Arsenale. ...

Nothing says Spring like a floral crown (see images below for completed examples) La Festa di Primavera last Saturday at my son's...

I wanted to mention one last favorite annual event of Carnevale before leaving those festivities entirely behind: Passa al Goldoni , a se...

Sandro and I happened through Piazza San Marco Tuesday afternoon and, without planning on it, came upon what appeared to be the closing c...

You won't see a trophy room like this in NYC's American Museum of Natural History Venice's Museo di Storia Naturale is not...