To live in venice italy
Living in Venice
Why to look for a house in Venice
To live in Venice is not exactly like living in other cities, but rather and experience full of contradiction, enthusiastic and challenging. Only who lives in Venice can gather its peculiarity and knows that Venice is not only St Mark’ square and Rialto Bridge.
Choosing to look for a house in Venice is a decision that has to be thought hard knowing all the peculiarities of this wonderful city. Who’s born in Venice would never leave from this city, instead who comes to live in Venice has to get used to its rhythm and its modality of moving around (walking or by vaporetto). In Venice life slow down, the lack of cars makes days quieter and the rhythm on a human scale.
It is extremely pleasant to live in a smogless city where it is not necessary to check before crossing streets, where there is the chance to see many faces, to meet people and to know that children can freely and safely play into the squares (campi).
To say nothing of art, that in this city it is possible to taste every single corner. Among the interesting places to visit in Venice there are not only the most famous sites, but also the less known ones, that can be even more interesting.
For sure the peculiarity of Venice is its fragility and the awareness that a citizen can’t find the same services of other cities, but it is enough to take a walk during dusk, to breathe a romantic atmosphere full of lights and reflections that makes every Venetian evening as magic as ever.
What to say about high water? An inconvenient that causes many damages, but it makes part of this city. So, there is also some imperfections, some problems connected to the life in such a particular city, but most of the people wouldn’t exchange Venice with any other town. Why? It is difficult to say.
To live in Venice means choosing a life still bound to its past, with Venetian dialect that is still the most used idiom, with a spritz to taste with a delicious cicheto in a typical Venetian bacaro, spending Sundays sailing the lagoon with a small boat or spending summer to the beach in Lido.
Venice is a complicated and sophisticated lady, but it is impossible not to fall in love with her…
In a bit “egocentric” and provocatively way, the poet Mario Stefani used to write: “If Venice didn’t have the bridge, Europe would be an Island”*
*He was referring to the bridge that joins Venice to the mainland.
