Tag Archive: venezia

The Closing of the Rialto Fish Market? Sign the petition to Just Say No.

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Moving the wholesale market to Fusina would certainly make transport to the Rialto pescheria impractical and cost prohibitive. Could the inconceivable really happen? Sign the petition to register your opinion.

Calici di Stelle: Taste WInes as San Lorenzo’s Stars Fall

The Wine Tourism Movement of Italy and the Associazione Italian Sommeliers, or AIS, is holding an outdoor wine event this Monday, August 10, from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. You’ll taste a variety of unusual whites, reds and dessert wines from the Tre Venezie (many of them native varieties), and if the weather holds, should offer…

We look marvelous: women of the Sensa, 2009

Look over these splendid, up-close photos from the Festa della Sensa, taken from on, near, and beyond the galley, the Serenissima. We women once again had the privilege of rowing this prestigious craft on a truly spectacular, if only potentially sizzling, day. The mayor couldn’t make it, but we had plenty of dignitaries form the…