“Frezzarìa” from Curiosità Veneziane by Giuseppe Tassini
On August 3rd, 1944, the German occupiers dragged seven men out of prison and executed them in front of friends and family
In central Venice, in a little used passageway, an inscription commemorates a Luigi Scolari, killed by the Austrians on June 14th, 1859.
In Venice past and present is intertwined, for the residents as much as for the tourists. It is one of the great attractions of Venice.
Venice has been described as a city on water without water – still there’s a well in every square and every courtyard
The word arsenal came to Europe from Arabic through the Venetian language – from the original meaning of a workplace it became a shipyard