The Rialto fish market has almost one thousand years of history: thousands of tons of fish were and still are sold and bought here. Our journey starts however in the wholesale market – off limits to outsiders – where negotiations take place early in the morning before the fish is then transported with special boats, called ‘topi’ over to the retail market and meticulously displayed on ice.
An itinerary to discover the Giudecca island and its architectural treasures, unveiling at the same time an unexpected, authentic surprise. Michele Savorgnano has fulfilled a life-long dream of re-converting a wide and abandoned area of the island into a patch of land devoted to cultivation with vines, fruit trees, plants, flowers.
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