Headless eagles on Venetian lampposts — small signs of big events in the past.
Venice is full of curiosities, often scattered around the city in the most unlikely of places.
A spate of killings in the 1100s in Venice by assassins wearing false full beards, led a ban under capital punishment for wearing fake full beards.
Who would expect to find runes in Venice? Yet, in central Venice a statue of a lion is covered in runic inscriptions
In Venice, near Santa Maria Formosa, there’s a blueish green door everybody photographs.
Seventeen centuries of adventures – the incredible post mortem journeys of Santa Lucia of Syracuse
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.