Venice. Instructions for use

Short introductory lines carry you through the lagoon, where history sleeps on the street and the houses are full of memories, the sea is served on a plate and people speak the Veneziano dialect. You will be tempted by eight routes that will introduce you to places from postcards and those waiting to be discovered. Visit the locales, where the locals go, go to the last shipyard, where they're still building gondolas, sneak into the bar, where Casanova was disappearing out the back exit. Walk through the arcade, round the corner to see the world's largest canvas, or let yourself be carried away by the tones that Vivaldi made here. Don't miss the bookstore, where acqua alta, high water, flows for literature.

Venice. The user manual is not a usual tourist guide. It's a hand that shows you that besides a few places overrun by hordes of tourists, it is possible to walk the other way slowly and freely. Because you won't find the most authentic Venice there, where everyone's looking for them, but there's still a channel, campo, Cicchetti, sotoportego on.