My aunt has spent a large part of her life living in Italy and she loves Venice. It's touristy, but it's one of the best tourist attractions for a reason.
>But it doesn’t feel like a real city because there’s nothing happening to it. Venice is preserved in amber by human efforts, against the advents of modern convenience. No families live there, no corporations set up offices there. It’s a story now. I think Venice might feel boring after a while, because it doesn’t feel real, but I’m glad I saw it once with my own eyes.
This is so laughably bad.
Venice isn’t some fossilized diorama, there’s constant life happening there if you bother to look beyond the tourist corridors. The city has a full calendar of cultural events, from the Biennale to the Film Festival to the many local feste and traditions that residents actually care about.
There are families, students, researchers, and workers. Ca’ Foscari University alone brings thousands of people into the city every day, with internationally respected departments in economics, Asian studies, and architecture. Entire neighborhoods function around that ecosystem.
The idea that Venice “doesn’t feel real” says more about a visitor who only walked through it for a day and then hastly judges it because of their own ignorance.
We need more coldhealing city reviews!
I can do this more I’ve been to a lot of cities
I love your depiction of the city. No matter the countless pictures of Venice I see on Instagram, my mind always imagines the Overwatch map Rialto.
My aunt has spent a large part of her life living in Italy and she loves Venice. It's touristy, but it's one of the best tourist attractions for a reason.
>But it doesn’t feel like a real city because there’s nothing happening to it. Venice is preserved in amber by human efforts, against the advents of modern convenience. No families live there, no corporations set up offices there. It’s a story now. I think Venice might feel boring after a while, because it doesn’t feel real, but I’m glad I saw it once with my own eyes.
This is so laughably bad.
Venice isn’t some fossilized diorama, there’s constant life happening there if you bother to look beyond the tourist corridors. The city has a full calendar of cultural events, from the Biennale to the Film Festival to the many local feste and traditions that residents actually care about.
There are families, students, researchers, and workers. Ca’ Foscari University alone brings thousands of people into the city every day, with internationally respected departments in economics, Asian studies, and architecture. Entire neighborhoods function around that ecosystem.
The idea that Venice “doesn’t feel real” says more about a visitor who only walked through it for a day and then hastly judges it because of their own ignorance.
Nice. This belongs in Patrick Collison's collection of city-specific essays: https://patrickcollison.com/travel.