Venice is full of curiosities that — if you see them — leads to lots of questions and very often not to as many answers.
In Venice, near Santa Maria Formosa, there’s a blueish green door everybody photographs.
Street names and folktales in Venice
Big Eyes, Honest Women and the Love of Friends. There are some odd place names in Venice, which pose many questions with few answers.
The paterae in Venice are small round reliefs that are scattered around the city, most of them dating to the medieval period.
Santa Claus is dead, and his bones are buried on both Bari and Venice. Most of him rests in Bari in Puglia, the rest in Venice on the Lido.
Viva il doge – Long live the doge – the writing on the wall celebrating the election of Andrea Gritto as doge in april 1523
Every stone in Venice tells a story. Recently I stumbled upon a stone telling a story of gaming. It had incised a Nine men’s Morris game board