Summary Beginning of the journey in Venice: Raphaël arrives at Castello, a very popular neighborhood of Venise and meets there Florence Boaretto Husson: they walk through the streets and underpasses and arrive at a floating market where Florence buys artichoke bottoms : then they cross the Via Garibaldi (a canal which was filled when Napoléon occupied Venice and arrive at the Grand CanalLater Raphaël meets Florence's family in the neighborhood of Cannaregio: they eat "spaghetti al olio".Later Florence and Raphaël walk along the water canals of Cannaregio and arrive at the Orsoni factory. there Stefano Giambino explains them how they produce pieces of mosaic.On the next day Raphaël meets DavideBusato, historian and writer, who talks about the criminality in Venice (in 1700 Venice had about 130.000 inhabitants and every day there were 20 murders):in a street a man man called Francesco Fabrizi killed two women, he was captured and executed on San Marco square : in the same street a gondolier killed another gondolier.they visit a mask store and talk about the carnival of Venice (a murderer could escape very easily during the 6 months of carnival).Later Raphaël arrives at the island of Vignole where he meets Francesco Biadene, a gardener, who takes care of a garden on the island.Francesco invites then Raphaël to go to Burano, they pass near the island of Saint Francis of the Desert and arrive at Burano, a fishermen island with colorful houses: they meet two ladies who were doing embroideries (this was a income for the fishermen's families).After that Raphaël arrives at Saint Erasmo where he meets Francesco Pannoli: this island has 200 inhabitants , most of them farmers: they visit Michel Thoulouze, a French wine maker: they go to the vineyard (grape variety of Malvasia istriana) and later they taste this white wine.On the next day Raphaël meets in a market Maria Scia, she was buying prawns and they go to her restaurant (Osteria Alba Nova): Raphaël sees how Maria is cooking and brings the meals to the clients.Later Raphaël goes to the Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto and meets there Patrizia Di Paolo, an opera singer and also stage manager: the singers are drinking white wine before the spectacle of the Traviata: Patrizia shows him the palace (with frescoes ): then the opera begins a in room (Patrizia sings Libiamo), the second act takes place in another room.Finally Raphaël meets his friends Franscesco and Davide at the square called Campo Santa Margherita: they drink "spritz" , a beverage made with a white wine (generally Prosecco), Aperol (or other bitter drink) and soda water and decide to make a boat tour by night on the Grand Canal of Venice. Besides we see zooms about the romantic Venice (the Danieli Hotel, the gondolier, the British bride and groom, the wedding planner), about the vogalonga, a boat race of 32 kilometers through the Lagoon of Venice,about the inhabitants of Venice who are angry about the mass tourism (the singer Claudio Boaretto, the architect Giovanni Battista Fabri), about the Murano glasses , about the San Michele Island. about the abandoned islands of Santo Spirito and Poveglia , about the vaporetto in the night ad the delivery barges in the early morning).

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