Secret Venice Lagoon Guide

Riccardo Roiter Rigoni, Debora Gusson

ISBN 10: 2361958783 / ISBN 13: 9782361958787

Published by Jonglez, FR, 2026

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Let Secret Venice guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Venice Lagoon guide book and let our local experts show you 150 well-hidden treasures of an amazing region. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track.Inside the guide you can find:A circular watertight and fireproof libraryA Madonna in a green cloakThe hull of a boat inside a churchA bailing machine from the late 19th century that is still in working orderA pontoon and a swing bridgeThe 2nd largest museum in the world devoted to pigsA shark named OliviaOld English cannons used as bollardsFar from the crowds and the usual cliches, Venice Lagoon offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Venice Lagoon well or would like to discover the other face of this fascinating region.

Seller Inventory # LU-9782361958787

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secret Venice Lagoon Guide
• Publisher: Jonglez, FR
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2361958783
• ISBN 13: 9782361958787
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, the Venice lagoon is still a reserve of well-concealed treasures only revealed to those who know how to wander off the beaten track.

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the lagoon well, or want to discover the hidden face of the surroundings of Venice.

The remains of the bell tower of Saint Mark's Basilica, which collapsed in 1902, a museum in the waiting room of a dental surgery that is still in use, the two secret holes through which cameramen projected films at the first Mostra in 1932, old English cannons used as mooring bollards, one of the few physical remains of the famous Battle of Lepanto, a replica in San Clemente of the house where the Virgin Mary lived in Nazareth, a little-known masterpiece of industrial archaeology, the last of the “guard quays” built just after 1500 to block the movement of sand, a work commemorating the day Pellestrina almost disappeared, the miracle of the moving eyes in a painting of the Virgin Mary, a beach in the lagoon listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site...

Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, the Venice lagoon is still a reserve of well-concealed treasures only revealed to those who know how to wander off the beaten track.

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the lagoon well, or want to discover the hidden face of the surroundings of Venice.

About the Author

Riccardo Roiter Rigoni has been a professional photographer and writer since 2001. His multilayered personality means he has multiple interests. He is the author of several photo books – Venezia Sensation (Granviale Editori, 2008), Venezia momenti senza tempo (Marcianum Press, 2012) and Il mare d’inverno esiste davvero (Duck Edizioni, 2016) – and a novel, Come la luna alle porte. dell’alba (Duck Edizioni, 2019).