Venice in the movies

Venetian legends: el poaro fornareto

4 Comments / history, Photos, stories, Venice, Venice in the movies / By Luca Marchiori

This head goes unnoticed by ninety-nine per cent of visitors. Even people particularly familiar with the building often have no idea it’s there. But Venetians know it’s there. Some will tell you that this is the head of Carmagnola, a soldier wrongly executed for treason. And others …

Venice in the movies: Don’t look now (1973)

2 Comments / Venice, Venice in the movies / By Luca Marchiori

When I was growing up in the UK, I avidly watched anything which was set in Venice. I remember my mother regularly shouting up the stairs, ‘Venice is on TV!’ and rushing to the living room to catch a glimpse of the Canal Grande, or Judith Chalmers sipping coffee in Caffè Florian wishing we were …

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