Secret Venice Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Jonglez Secret Guides) - Softcover

Thomas Jonglez; Paola Zoffoli; Irene Galifi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2361959127 ISBN 13: 9782361959128

Publisher: Jonglez Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

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Let Secret Venice guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

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 7th edition, Secret Venice features over 270 secret and unusual locations:

• 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
• 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 ...

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.

Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Venice offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Venice well or would like to discover the other face of the city.

The definitive insider’s guide to Venice.

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About this title

About the Author

After spending a few months in the German capital in 1994 and being blown away by 'alternative' Berlin after the fall of the Wall, Thomas Jonglez took a few detours: seven months of back- packing in Latin America, seven months of driving from Beijing to Paris without ever taking a plane, six months with his family between Venice and Rio de Janeiro and across Siberia and the Pacific, three years in Brussels, three years in Paris, seven years in Venice and seven years in Rio de Janeiro ... Returning to the loves of his youth, Thomas moved back to Berlin in 2019. What he found is a city that's obviously less alternative than it was in the 1990s but still has a particular charm and energy, to which he has paid tribute by publishing, among many other books, the Secret Berlin guide. On his return, he spent two fantastic years wandering the streets of the capital to gather material for his first "secret guide", written with a friend. For the next seven years he worked in the steel industry until the passion for discovery overtook him. He launched Jonglez Publishing in 2005 and moved to Venice one year later. In 2012, he set off on a six-month family trip: by train from Venice to Pyongyang (North Korea) via Paris, Moscow and Beijing. Next he travelled through Japan, Micronesia, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tahiti, Easter Island, Peru and Bolivia before arriving in Rio de Janeiro, where he spent seven years. He returned to Europe in 2019 and rediscovered the charms of the old continent and his hometown.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonglez Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2361959127
• ISBN 13: 9782361959128
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416