This church- San Giacomo ,the oldest in Venice at the Rialto surrounded by famous fish market for many centuries is buzzing with the crowds of visitors and Christmas shoppers.In the shadow of this mysterious time-keeper lies a glorious mask shop, whose work is my favourite in Venice, called La Bottega dei Mascareri (www.mascarer.com) see below
The recent version of The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino splendid, as Shylock-the reviled money lender who, in an attempt to extract his revenge on the contemptuous Christian nobles of Venice, has his scheming come horribly undone by a young lawyer from Padova, who turns out to be a woman. This convoluted story by the bard had a cruel fate in mind for the merchant.The ethereal foggy waterscapes around the Rialto provide a perfect scenographic atmosphere with its floating world of intrigue ...Venice is most beautiful in the fog as the Nobel prize winner Russian poet Brodsky in Watermark wrote ..
