On the eighteenth anniversary of Marco Polo’s death, L’altra Venezia is pleased to present a new guided tour itinerary dedicated to him.

“Cities are a combination of many things: of memory, of desires, of signs, of language; cities are places of exchange, exchanges of words, of desires, of memories” (I. Calvino, American lessons)

Venice has been a mercantile city since its first lagoon conformation. The need to develop commercial relationships via water soon revealed an excellent economic/social development opportunity. Thus, Venice became a point of exchange between East and West, not only for goods but also for people and ideas.
Its merchants made the city rich, transformed and shaped it, made it multi-ethnic and permeable to the arts and styles of all the cultures with which they came into contact.

After the golden centuries of trade, the protagonists, the goods, and the routes changed, but until the end of the Republic, Venice remained radically and intrinsically a mercantile city, a connection point between Europe and Asia, an engine of culture and progress.

Our itinerary is dedicated to this theme, intertwining it with the suggestions and events concerning the most famous Venetian merchant in the world: Marco Polo.

“Because Marco is Venice. Because if Marco embodies the hero who undermines the rules and conventions to the point of projecting himself where no one had ever dared (…), the lagoon city is the absolute and indisputable protagonist”
(E. Orlando, The Venices of Marco Polo)

For information and reservations write to: info@laltravenezia.it