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Reality Stares Venice In The Face
Sometimes the situation facing a person, a city, a community doesn’t really need to be described in words, as one can tell just by looking when something is plainly wrong. This is one of those situations, as merely watching this behemoth churn through a narrow dredged canal near Venice shows you just how silly it is for La Serenissima to tie her fortunes to these floating monstrosities. You don’t have to be an oceanographer to realize why a city sinking into the sea shouldn’t have its fragile foundations attacked by the turbulence these beasts generate.
To hear hoteliers and restauranteurs tell it, it’d be one thing if the upshot having a series of city-sized ships slinking through the canals was netting them an influx of customers who make their businesses more profitable, but that isn’t happening–cruise ship folks generally don’t have a professional guide like Doug Sassi showing them where to find the authentic Venice away from the tourist traps. They don’t stay over night for multiple nights if they stay at all, they don’t venture past Piazza San Marco and the Rialto, they don’t spend money with local businesses other than the occasional tourist trap trinket shop selling fake Carnivale masks, and they don’t really take in the real Venice in a sustainable way. There needs to be an alternative to driving sustainable business here.
Leaving Venice Via Water Taxi
Getting a cab, Venetian style. Though it’s always a bittersweet moment to be leaving Venice, a great way to get to Venice Marco Polo to catch your flight home is via water taxi; they pick you up canal side, and you get one last waterborne view of Venice’s majesty as you say goodbye for now to La Serenissima. Enjoy the view with us!
Save Venice!
English translation of the petition. If you haven’t already signed it, please do!
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We are destroying one of the wonders of the world, Venice, for the profits of the few who want to bring in cruiseships that are double the size of the Titanic, with a devastating cost to the ecosystem, the embankments and threatening symbols, like St Mark’s Square, with the first wrong move.
The Government is under pressure from the cruise lobby to give the go-ahead for the dredging of a new channel in the next few days. But following the resignation of the Infrastructure Minister, Lupi, the government must demonstrate that the era of large projects and large corruption is finished, that work against the interests of the citizens and the environment.
The moment of truth will come on Sunday: Renzi will be in Venice. We must act immediately.
Sign and share with everyone: once 100,000 signatures have been collected, we will hand the petition to the candidates for Mayor and President of the Region who will stand with him on the stage, until he agrees to withdraw the Government’s support for the project.
To Prime Minister Renzi, and all candidates for President of the Veneto Region, and for Mayor of Venice:
Venice isn’t at risk from natural causes, but from speculation and environmental devastation caused by humans. We are asking you to choose to save it, stopping local projects that threaten its existence, starting with the dredging of the Contorta Canal, keeping large cruiseships out of the Lagoon, and making Venice a global symbol of the fight for the protection of the planet’s beauty, choosing a sustainable future for the city and 100% powered by clean energy.
Great Documentaries On Venice
Thought of posting this the other day when word of Leonard Nimoy’s condition was public, but held off hoping he’d get better. Unfortunately today we learned that was not to be. But it’s a great way to remember that iconic, sonorous voice of his, enjoying this informative documentary about how and why Venice was built.
We all have to go sometime, and seeing Venice before you do is almost mandatory.
What Is Prosecco, Anyway?
Not just any sparkling white wine from Italy, mind you. This is a quick but insightful piece on what exactly prosecco denotes. We’re planning on doing some more exploring of this region soon and will have reports…stay tuned! Thanks Dream of Venice for posting this.
(Photo by Penny Sadler).
Venice At The Dawn Of WW2
Dream of Venice shared this quaint look at Venice in 1940; a dark shadow was descending over Europe at that time, making for a scarily uncertain atmosphere for all Europeans, but the people in this seem charmed, alive, and blissfully unaware of the horrors in the offing for so many of their neighbors. That so many of Italy’s treasures survived the first and second world wars is something pretty remarkable when you stop to think about it.
Veggies in Venice
Tony Bourdain quipped during a visit to Emiglia Romagna that more Americans would eat their vegetables if they tasted like the veggies you can enjoy in Italy. We’re inclined to think he’s correct. This quick visit to Sant’Erasmo (the garden island of Venice) will have you agreeing as well.
New Pics
Added some pics to our Facebook page, plenty more to follow. If you haven’t given us a like, please do!
Risotto–It’s What’s For Dinner (I Wish)
As the sun sets on a lovely Saturday afternoon in fall, it makes me wish I was on Burano this afternoon enjoying a plate of Trattoria Da Romano’s timeless, unequaled, and definitive seafood risotto.
It’s a dish made with love, served with precision, and eaten with gusto. Try as I might, I can’t quite replicate it in my home kitchen–you need that Venetian fish broth! Will have it again soon, but you can define life in terms of days spent in Venice, and days not spent in Venice.
Pair it with a brolettino (a fabulous Lugana).
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