Venice is a fascinating town: a great history, a lot of beautiful palaces, churches and canales and interesting islands (Burano, Murano): a town with a great romantic fame, but also an important mass tourism.
In the center the Grand Canal with the vaporetto (Venetian public waterbus): we see when the vaporetto is navigating in the night through the Grand Canal and then in the early morining the Grand Canal and the others canals are occupied by the delivery barges : the delivery of the fruits and vegetables, the mail,the the laundry products for the hotels or the garbage collection.
On the same canals there takes place the the vogalonga, about 2.000 boats (kayaks, rowing boats) are navigating on a route of 32 kilometers: a great moment of friendliness between Venetian and people coming from all the world (like the French association "Unies pour elles").
But the mass tourism has its impacts on Venice: Claudio Boaretto and other Venetian are taking off.the love padlocks from the bridges of Venice: Giovanni Battiista Fabri, an architect, and other Venetians are protesting against the arrival of the cruisers in the Grand Canal.
About the romantic fame there are the famous gondola tours and the luxury hotels like the Danieli hotel (a palace built in the 14th century): couples come to marry in Venice: Giovanna Wurmbrand is a wedding planner who will organize the wedding of Paul and Emma: the civil marriage for foreigners takes place in the Palazio Cavalli; then the shootings and a romantic gondola tour.
I enjoyed also the visit of the nearby islands: Murano with the glass blowing: some artists like Aristide Najean and Laurence Dreano are working with glass blowers for making their pieces of art.
Then comes the nice San Michele island with the Venice cemetery: we see the tumb of Igor Stravinsky.
Then we discover with the photographer Manuel Costantini the abandoned island of Santo Spirito, a former military base and the abandoned island of Poveglia (a place of quarantaine for many years).
I enjoyed also the encounters of Raphaël with Florence Boaretto (the walk through the neighborhood of Castello, the floating market and the Via Garibaldi, the mosaic pieces factory), with Florence's family (in the neighborhood of Cannaregio), with Cannaletto), with Davide Busato(the historian and writer), with Francesco Biadene (Vignole and Burano), with Francesco Pannoli ( the vineyard of Snt Erasmo), with Maria Scia (Osteria Alba Nova), with Patrizia Di Paolo and the other artists singing the Traviata in a charming palace: very nice encounters with very kind Venetian men and women.