UNFORGETTABLE ITALY contest: Week 26 (15% para beneficiar a la comunidad)
My tour guide was not an Italian, but a New Yorker named John Berendt.
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There were so many notes that Berendt took that he decided to make a book with them, which he titled "The City of Fallen Angels", which was published in 2011.
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Through this book I toured various places in Venice, a place with the smell of the sea, with the color of saffron, with a taste of mollusks, with passages in gondolas. I also had the opportunity to witness family and inheritance conflicts between various families: The Curtis, the Rudges and the Rylands couple, who constantly argued over the Save Venice organization.
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Here is a fragment of the work:
To be a Venetian, "said Marcello," you have to know how to live in Venice; and that is quite an art. It is because of our way of living, so different from the rest of the world. Venice was built not only with stone but with a very fine network of words, said and remembered, of stories and legends, of eyewitnesses and hearsay. Working and operating in Venice means above all understanding its differences and the fragile balance of its balance. In Venice we move delicately and in silence. With great subtlety. We are very Byzantine people and that is certainly not something easy to understand.
I'm from Venezuela, which translates to "little Venice." I live in a port town called Carúpano, here we are surrounded by a sea breeze, the sea occupies a large part of the city, the smell of fish is a mist that shelters us. This is what I imagine Venice and its market to be like, like this one in my town:
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