Venetian Cioccolata calda (recipe)
Cioccolata calda, is the Venetian winter drink par excellence. It’s been being served all over the city since the early 1600s. Find out how to make it yourself.
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Venice in the movies: Summertime (1955)
Most of Summertime was filmed in and around the Piazza di San Marco and Campo San Barnaba, where Brazzi’s shop was located. The building is still a shop, but today sells toys rather than red Murano glass goblets, but curiously, never seems to be open.
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Venetian word of the day: ombra
Due to the presence of the lagoon, Venice is a city of extraordinary light and shadow. However, the word ombra, Italian for shadow, has a very different and specific meaning in Venetian. And one which is just as enjoyable. Now, what could that be?
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Venetian word of the day: Ciò
Ciò is one of the most famous words in Venetian. In standard Italian the word ciò is a kind of relative pronoun, meaning. But in Venetian, the meaning is very different. You hear it everywhere, and it’s often overused by zealous movie scriptwriters wanting to make their characters sound Venetian (such as in the wonderful film Pane e Tulipani where most of the Venetian heard is spoken by an actress from Turin).
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Great Venetians: Marin Sanudo
Marin Sanudo was a Venetian nobleman, born in 1466, who became a sort of Venetian Samuel Pepys; or should we say, as he was born earlier, that Samuel Pepys was a sort of English Marin Sanudo? Read all about him here.
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Venetian maxims: Chi no ga testa ga gambe
Venetians are famous in the rest of Italy for their maxims which often give a flavour of what it’s like to live in the city. Discover what this maxim tells you about living in the city and particularly about the bridges and stairs which are a feature of every Venetian’s day.
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