Venetian Stories
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In 1215, Venice and Padua fought a war for one of the silliest reasons imaginable: a brawl during a game of Castle of Love.
Songbirds were an important part of the shopping experience in Venice in the 1600s and 1700s.
Why is there no History of Venice podcast? That can’t be right!
The iconic cloaked and beaked plague doctor is often associated with Venice, but there is no documentation that the figure ever existed in Venice.
Slavery existed in Venice throughout the history of the republic, and the Venetian profited from the lucrative trade.
The annual Regata Storica is normally devoid of political messages, but not this year.
Clara the Rhino was an unusual participant of the Carnival in Venice of 1751, but not the less popular for it.
On the Grand Tour in the 1640s, the English gentleman John Evelyn spent almost a year in Venice and Padua.
Engravings of people working in the alleyways of Venice in the 1700s can tell us quite a bit about what people ate.
A three-day agricultural fair in Venice expels the locals from all the public spaces for three weeks.
