VENICE: the Keys to the City (2)

by Patty Civalleri

This book will entice you with hundreds of ways to unlock the secrets of Venice, one of the most impenetrable cities in the world. While everyone else is standing around staring, you will wander away from the crowds; take a selfie with a gargoyle ; sip a Spritz while standing outside a bar; fill your bottle with water from a campo well ; try baccalà; learn to make glass ; venture into the Catacombs of San Zaccaria ; ride the red escalator to the top of Tedeschi's for the best Grand Canal view ever ; eat the local food; get high with your camera ; visit an ancient monastery ; visit the rainbow-colored island of Burano ; learn to make perfume ; climb the spiral Bovolo tower ; see an Opera ; ride a Gondola in Cannaregio; hold hands on the sunset waterfront of Dorsudoro. Above all, you will get lost in this wondrous labyrinth city, and come out only when it is time to go home. Fall in love with this ancient wonder that still exists in our modern world. This book is overloaded with fun new ways to travel back in time to the medieval days of "La Serenissima," the beautiful Venice.

264 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2018

About the author

A triple-award winning author, a historian and global archaeology junkie, Patty Civalleri has traveled for 17 years to the deepest corners of our ancient past in search of lost civilizations all over our planet. She has had the privilege of doing so with some of the foremost archaeologists and scientists in the world.

She enjoyed the honor of serving on the Director's Council of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and on the Board of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at California State University in Long Beach (CSULB), and as the 2017 Commodore of the Alamitos Bay Chargers boating club in Long Beach, Ca.

As a writer, photographer, graphic designer, and technology professional, Patty has had the pleasure of building websites, photographing, and marketing for nearly 200 business clients around the country.

Life on the canals of Belmont Shore in Southern California with her husband Roger is one of social, culinary, and sailing delights.

Recent awards:
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