One city slowly sinking, one city crumbling to dust. Andi Arnovitz makes a personal comparison between Venice and Jerusalem, where she lives and works…(click to read more)
Transformation, integral to portals, doesn’t have to be spiritual. If you had the courage to cross this particular threshold in the 1920s, you would have witnessed the rise of the communist party in Italy (click to read more)…
The residents of the courtyard followed the example of their predecessors and added dates to the inscription, imploring the Madonna for safety during enemy shelling, firstly from Austrian bombs, then in WW1. It brings to mind that story in ‘Fever Pitch’ by Nick Hornby…
An estate agent, bent on rushing Marika and I to the next floridly overwritten apartment on sale (una chicca signori!) took the short-cut from Celestia into the heart of Castello via the Sotoportego Zorzi. A transformation occurred (Click to read more)