Venice

The history of this crossing gives the route its theme of temporary solutions that outlast approved projects.

This stop will show what it cost merchants to secure the right to an open communal life.

You will trace how a merchants' legend gave the townspeople an anonymous voice.

Here you will see the boundaries of the forced quarter and traces of their abolition.

The finale will link a private banking collapse to the state system for settling commercial payments.

Here, behind the everyday square, the political life of a working-class neighborhood will come into view.

The ending will reveal how a master's rejected work changed the church's name.

History will show the limits of a doge's personal power where the republic's councils met.

The waterfront links the exile of artisans to the emergence of a new craft in the city.

This stretch is here to show where the present-day evening life of northern Cannaregio begins.

Here, the commercial history of Zattere meets contemporary art and a debate over the fate of buildings.

This shopping street shows how a newcomer could establish himself in the city through a shop, a partnership, and citizenship.

A private home explains how a personal collection acquired a permanent address and became a museum.

Here, the ceremonial entrance from the lagoon also turns out to be a site of exemplary justice.

A short episode preserves the trace of everyday trade displaced from the ceremonial palace.

You will see how a pedestrian crossing of the canal was combined with passage for boats.

The customs house will conclude the walk with a story of control over goods at the very edge of the trading city.

The crossing would become the key to the failure of the armed march on the palace.

The basilica will bring the route back from private decisions to a promise made on behalf of the entire republic.

The complex explains how private aid grew into a major confraternity and an enormous construction project.

The boatyard will connect the Zattere's timber cargo with craftsmanship and an attempt to master a completely different kind of rowing.

This stop distinguishes the confirmed search for relics from the tradition of their miraculous discovery.

Here it will become clear why the republic turned its main square into a venue for international negotiations.

The name of the waterfront will restore to it the vanished cargo and the people who left here on foot.