By Nino Baldan 7 December 2019 Venice is losing another piece of history: on 31 December Silvestro, the well-known haberdashery on Via Garibaldi, which has supplied residents of the area for generations, will close. And there are two reasons: the rise in rent and the drop in population, factors which are now common in the … More Goodbye Silvestro; with the last haberdashery a piece of Via Garibaldi’s history closes

The Municipality: enough already. But the face of the city continues to change. 11 September 2019 VENEZIA. The face of the city continues to change at what seems to be an overwhelming pace. Hotels, stores selling merchandise for 1 Euro, and restaurants are the major activities that now characterize the city. For resident in the … More In Venice, restaurants and bars replace closed banks

31 May 2019 Another school in Venice is closing. Another symbol of those who measure the city by its residents and its children is lost. Another memory of our childhood will be erased. Another building will be converted to “other activities”. The Bartolomea Capitanio kindergarten, active for over 100 years, will not reopen its doors … More Venice will lose the Bartolomea Capitanio kindergarten. Another model institution closes.

The managers of the fair trade shop Aqua Altra take the initiative: soon the business will move to the heart of campo Santa Margherita Between the bars, take-out pizzerias and the wine bars of campo Santa Margherita there will soon be a store that carries food and craft products. It’s an investment and a gamble: … More A Venetian store resists

18 May 2019 VENEZIA. For the first time the number of residents in the historic city has fallen below the 53,000 mark, while the total count, including the residents of the islands, is close to 80 thousand, recorded at 80,418. So say, though with some divergence, the official count reported on the City’s portal, where … More The Population of Venice Falls Below 53,000