Reisgids Secret Venice | Jonglez Publishing (9782361954116)

Allow the award-winning Secret Venice guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Venice guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

 

The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's 6th edition, Secret Venice features 270+ secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Venice :Discover the secrets of St.

 

Mark's Basilica without any tourist, decipher the capitals of the palace of the Doges, take the only underground canal in Venice, look out for of the alchemical sculpture of the winged horse, open your eyes to traces of the Teriaca, this miracle drink that was long made in Venice, tear up the paintings of the Scuola di San Rocco according to the principles of the Hebrew Kabbalah or the construction of San Francesco della Vigna according to those of the musical Kabbalah, visit an underground graveyard, push the doors of palaces and monasteries to walk in unsuspected gardens, admire the extraordinary forgotten library of the Venice seminary, sleep in a sublime room hidden in a palace, go shopping at the women's prison market of the Giudecca, play petanque in the heart of the city, make a retreat in a wonderful monastery of the lagoon ... *Secret Venice was singled-out as the Travel Guide of the Year at the Independent Publisher Awards (2011)*Don't miss - Each chapter of this Secret Venice travel guide book corresponds to a different part of the city so that one can always find a hidden or secret place to discover. Perfectly planned walks - Make sure that you do not miss any Secret location, by discovering each one featured in this guide by planning a walking tour of each part of the city.