It is, somehow, this combination of a dense urban landscape set upon the water, of public life being in constant contact with liquid thoroughfares, of daily encounters with medieval and renaissance buildings on platforms reached only by boat or by bridges.
And palaces, designed to be reached not through long, tree shaded driveways, but by gondolas which enter through the ground floor portals. But are they truly "ground floor?"
And where instead of a subway map, you learn how to read the vaporeto routes that run along the main canals and outer reaches of these city islands...
And where we realized when we went to our local Billa supermarket for fruits and vegetables and wine that our purchases had arrived by truck, but only by a truck that had first been loaded onto a barge.
No other place quite like it in this world (though Hamburg does claim to have more canals than Venice...which it probably does...but they ain't this kind of canal).
Location:Veneztia
