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Essi Buranei & Co | Isola cli Burano
Pastries and doughnuts | 10
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Merletto | Isola di Burano
Lace and the anti-luxury laws | 12
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Venissa | Isola di Mazzorbo
Vineyard with a bell tower | 14
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Lucio Bubacco | Isola di Murano
Glass extravaganza | 16
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Serenella | Isola di Murano
The lagoon, a legend... and more legends | 18
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The "Vitac" I Isola di Murano
... and Casanova's none-too-chaste nun | 20
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The Tree Trunk | Isola di San Francesco del Deserto
Commemorating the patron saint | 22
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The Privy | Isola di San Giacomo in Paludo
A rather unchaste convent | 24
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The Maze I Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Borges' wonderfully real-surreal world | 26
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The Statue of San Giorgio | Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Why the gondolier is a dragon slayer \ 28
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The Ossuary | Isola di Simt'Ariano
The genesis of a bone island | 30
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The Vegetable Farm | Isola di Sant'Erasmo
Non solo castraure | 32
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The Moleche | Isola di Torccllo
Soft shell - molto buono! | 34
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The Ponte del Diavolo | Isola di Torccllo
Where the devil waitsfor eternity | 36
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The People Mover | Isola del Troncherto
Construction eyesores | 38
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The Cemetery Museum | I.ido di Vcnczia
A none too pacific burial site \ 40
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Icon on the Top Floor | Lido di Vcnczia
The "birthplace" of Corto Maltese \ 42
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The Anchors | Ve neziii/Cannare^io
A blessing in disguise ...or maybe not? | 44
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The Bigoli | Venezia/Cannaregio
Venice's contribution to pasta | 46
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Blucobalto | VcnLv.ia/CannarcLHn
The -wonderful world of Pietro Russo | 48
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The Crown of Flames | Venezia/Cannaregio
Alchemy in the Philosophers' House \ 50
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The Eruv | Vcnezia /Cannaregio
An unusually modern interpretation | 52
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The Gentlemen from the East | Venezia/Cannaregio
fust off the Campo | 54
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Gouged-out Eyes | Venezia/Cannaregio
Served on a tray | 56
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The Inscription | Venezia/Cannaregio
A "frosty" stone | 58
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The Letterbox | Ve nc/ia /C annaregio
A "bocca della verita"for informers | 60
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Marco Polo | Venczia/C annart'gio
A very lively bookshop | 62
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The Nymph with Two Satyrs | Venezia/Cannaregio
Mythology is a matterfor interpretation | 64
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The Offertory Box | Vcne/.ia/Cannaregi<i
The battle between good and evil | 66
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Orsoni | Vc nezia/Cannarcgio
A library of colours | 68
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The Red Fourth Floor | Ve nezia/Cannarcgio
Baron Corvo and the gondolieri \ 70
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The Santa Lucia Plaque I Venezia/Cannaregio
The church demolished for a railway station \ 72
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The Terrazzo Veneziano | Venezia/Cannaregio
Advanced recycling \ 74
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The Tree Nursery | Venezia/Cannaregio
"II Vivaio alia Misericordia" \ 76
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The Valese Art Foundry | Venezia/Cannaregio
Where the sea horses are made \ 78
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The Venice Principle | Venezia/Cannaregio
Exhortations carved in stone \ 80
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The Venus I Venezia/Cannaregio
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The Carnival Masks | Venezia/Castello
Tell-tale masks of truth \ 84
Explicit advances? | 82
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The Cathedra Petri | Venezia/Castello
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Cicchetti | Venezia/Castello
The incarnation of the sardine | 88
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The Colleoni Monument | Venezia/Castello
Meeting point for lovers | 90
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The Garnier Elephant | Venezia/Castello
Lethal church visit | 92
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The Marble Tile j Vcnczia/Castello
Tools telling workers' history | 94
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Pompeo Giustiniani | Vcnczia/Castello
A one-armed hero | 98
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The Red Stone | Venezia/Castcllo
The miracle of Corte Nova | 100
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The Revolving Door | Venczia/Castello
Unwanted children | 102
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The Runes | Venezia/Castello
A taste of the north in Venice | 104
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The Sala San Marco | Venezia/Castcllo
The "bloody" library | 106
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The Secret Message | Venczia/Castello
A politically motivated bridge railing \ 108
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The Storeroom | Vcnczia/Castello
Did Saint Mark have a vision here? | 110
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The Used Clothes Collection | Venezia/Castello
Second-hand in holy walls | 112
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The White Stone I Venezia/Castello
Meeting point of the great \ 114
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The Boccia Lane | Ve nezia/Dorsoduro
Beach fun in the city | 116
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The Do Farai | Venezia/Dorsoduro
Venetian sashimi | 118
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The Dog Relief | Venezia/Dorsoduro
Symbol of the "Padri dell'acquavita" | 120
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The Faded Coat of Arms | Venezia/Dorsoduro
Veronica Franco's birthplace \ 122
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The Footprints | Venezia/Dorsoduro
Bridge of fists | 124
Mysterious bishop's seat | 86
Lactans | Venezia/Castello
Illustrated breastfeeding | 96
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The Nail | Vc nezia/Dorsoduro
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The RioTera dei Gesuati | Venezia/Dorsoduro
Afilled-in canal | 128
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The Squero | Venezia/Dorsoduro
The invention of single-handed steering | 130
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The Former Convento | Venezia/Giudecca
An example of a meaningful conversion | 132
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The Garden of Eden | Venezia/Giudecca
What remains of paradise? | 134
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The Ponte dei Lavraneri | Venezia/Giudecca
Traces of industrial Venice | 136
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The Stucky Bust | Venezia/Giudecca
How to blackmail a city | 138
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The Villa Herriot | Venezia/Giudecca
Some restfor the soul | 140
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The Chiesa di San Gerardo | Venezia/Giudecca/Sacca Fisola
And if Venice was a normal city after all? | 142
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The Lion and the Venus | Venezia/Giudecca/Sacca Fisola
A fresco's city history | 144
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The Bistrot de Venise | Venezia/San Marco
Castradina and historical recipes | 146
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The Cucina da Mario | Venezia/San Marco
Canteen of the gondolieri \ 148
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The Devil's Hole | Venezia/S an Maico
How to chase a devil | 150
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The Fiorella Gallery | Wnr'/i.t/San Marco
The art of provocation \ 152
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The Golden Head | Venezia/San Marco
Guarding the celestial medicine | 154
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The High Altar | Venezia/San Marco
Dance around the golden calf \ 156
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. The Holy Nipple | Ve nezia/San Marco
The invisible relic | 126
A semi-disrobed Mary Magdalene \ 158
76 .. The Lord Byron Plaque | Ve nezia/San Marco
The amorous adventures of the poet \ 160
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The Lovers | Ve nezia/San Marco
A stone book at the Doge's Palace \ 162
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The Man with No Arms I Venezia/San Marco
An odd engraving \ 164
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The Mortar Imprint | Vcnczia/San Marco
A reminder of celestial medicine | 166
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The
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"Ombre" | Venezia/San M arco
Of light and dark shadows | 170
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The Pala d'Argento | Vcnczia/San Marco
An unknown hidden altarpiece | 172
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The
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The Rangone | Vc nezia/San Marco
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The Ridotti | Venczia/San Marco
The first state-run casino | 178
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TheTraghetto del Buso | Vcnczia/San Marco
Crossing over to the truck | 180
Old Woman with the Mortar | Venezia/San Marco
This high relief is a reminder of a conspiracy | 168
Pink Pillars I Vcnczia/San M arco
So why the change of colourf | 174
A remedy against syphilis | 176
87 ... . The Veneta [ Vcnczia/San Marco
With sword and lions \ 182
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The
Violinist | Venezia/San Marco
Vivaldi, celibacy and young ladies \ 184
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Whimsical Columns | Vcnczia/San Marco
How throwing the dice became legal \ 186
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24 Hours | Venezia/San Polo
Memories of an Italian clock \ 188
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The Aretino Commemorative Plaque | Vcnczia/San Polo
An anticlerical and pornographic free spirit \ 190
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The Bancogiro | Venezia/San Polo
Non solo Spritz \ 192
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The Barbacan | Venezia/San Polo
A model for all of Venice | 194
94._ . The Carampane | Venezia/San Polo
An exorbitant number of whores \ 196
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The Coopers | Vcnczia/San Polo
Wine barrels, wine merchants and a chapter house \ 198
96_ _ The Diving Suit | Venezia/San Polo
Underwater warfare a la Leonardo \ 200
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The Mill | Vcnczia/San Polo
A game board or an esoteric symbol? | 202
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The Odd Inscription | Venezia/San Polo
A replacementfor the former pillory \ 204
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The Papal Relief | Vc nczia/S.in Polo
The Pope and the Knights Templar | 206
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The Ponte delleTette | Vcnczia/San Polo
Bare-breasted bait | 208
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Prophet Postel | Venezia/San Polo
Tintoretto's secret messages | 210
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The Skeleton | Vcnc/i.i/San Polo
Going to heaven with black magic? | 212
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The Two Lions | Vcnczia/San Polo
Power battles in the lagoon | 214
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The Vulgar Relief | Venezia/San Polo
Obscene incidents within the financial administration j 216
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The White Masque | Venezia/San Polo
The legend of the honourable lady | 218
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The Altane | Venczia/Santa Croce
"Forest" towers for women | 220
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The Ancient Column | Venczia/Santa Crocc
What can this relic tell us? | 222
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The Bom | Venezia/Santa Crocc
A reminder of Radetzky | 224
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The Eliminated Lion | Vcnczia/Santa Crocc
Getting rid of an unloved icon \ 226
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The Palazzo Tron | Vcnczia/Santa Crocc
Cantankerous ladies | 228
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St John the Decapitated | Venczia/Santa Crocc
A stew with human flesh \ 230