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Gondolas, canals, bridges, Piazza San Marco, the Serenissima, the carnival. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Venice? Do you really know everything about this unique city in the world? We are about to tell you about 7 small and incredible curiosity that you can't not remember the next time you go to visit it!

The city floating

Venice is a floating city, in the sense that floats on the water. It is composed of 118 small islands connected to each other with channels and bridges. But don't think about 118 natural islands on which houses have been built! The buildings of Venice are built on wooden platforms supported by large piles stuck in the soil of the swamp, underwater. It all started in the fifth century d. C., when the Northern Barbarians continually invaded the Roman Empire of the West. The populations of these territories took refuge in the areas of the marsh (until then inhabited only by a few fishermen) and, with the passage of time, they settled there definitely. Over the centuries, the settlement has grown to become the city we know today.

Calle Varisco

The narrowest calle of the city of Venice is only 53 centimeters wide. Obviously, one passes one at a time! It is located between the Rialto Bridge and the foundations nine, but it is so narrow that probably on the map you will not find it!

THE CASIN OF THE SPIRITS

During the Renaissance, in this casino overlooking the lagoon, they found themselves artists, writers and nobles for long Libertine evenings. Luzz, a painter who met with Tiziano, Sandolino and Giorgione here, fell in love with Cecilia, one of the many girls who got the casin evenings. A unrequited love that led the artist to take his life. It is said that since then, the tormented spirit and in love with a vague luer for the rooms of the palace looking for the woman of him.

Gondolieri

There are jobs that exist only and only in Venice. The gondoliers, for example, do not need any presentation and would really be difficult to imagine them away from the canals of the city!

Theimpirear

Another figure closely linked to the floating city: the fither. A profession that today is almost totally disappeared, but that between nineteenth and twentieth centuries was widespread. The carearers were women dealing with insulating (impirar, in Venetian dialect) pearls. Murano factories provided pearls and women, often gathered to work in a group in front of the use of home, which threw them to make wonderful necklaces.

The Venice dinosaur

Is already. In Venice there are dinosaurs! In the Museum of Natural History, housed in the marvelous Palace of the Turkish Fondaco there is the skeleton of a ouranosaurus. It's 7 meters long and dates back to 112 million years ago! It's so incredible that watching it almost seems to hear the heavy steps!

The Crusader of San Barnaba

Another incredible story. In the distant 1612, the Morosini family doing work in a chapel of his property found the mummy of a crusader soldier. One of him he decided to show him during the holidays with friends, like a trophy. But every morning, the boy found the mummy in a different position. Can't find a plausible explanation, he decided to spend all the night of guard. Just before dawn the battered corpse got up and told the boy to be dead with dishonor because he, drunk, he had drowned in the lagoon the night before leaving for the crusades. The crusader was transported to the church of San Barnaba and tells that, since then, the spirit of him wanders for the city in search of a heroic gesture to make to restore the lost honor.