"It only takes up to 4 minutes to decide whether you like someone or not"If you want to make a good impression on someone, you’ve only got about 4 minutes to do it. It is believed that it has far more to do with your body language, tone and speed of your voice rather than exactly what you say.From Venice With Love,Giada
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Venice fun fact:Nobody believed the it was possible to build the Rialto Bridge out of stone. It was a common phrase for a man to say “It will be constructed when I have 3 legs” or a woman to say that she would set herself on fire if the construction were ever completed. From these two proverbs, today you can see these two characters carved in the arches of the building besides the bridge, the Palace Camerlenghi: a man with 3 legs and a woman sitting on a flaming brazier!From Venice With love,Giada #giadavalenti #PBS #FromVeniceWithLove #FunFactsVenice #FunFacts#Curiosity
Street's of Venice Fun Fact:The real streets of Venice were the canals – that’s why the “Calle”, or alleyways, are so narrow. The main entrances of palaces and normal houses were on the canal-side. Today, Venice also has a parking problem of its own, (Funny, isn’it?) due to too many boats and too few docking spaces. So often nowadays Venetians are more often choosing to walk than taking a boat to do chores.Happy Monday,Giada#giadavalenti #PBS #FromVeniceWithLove #Venice #Italylovers
Venice fun food : Pronounced “chee-KET-eeh,” cicchetti are Venice’s answer to Spain’s tapas. They’re small plates of food, usually nibbled among friends in the evening or at lunchtime. Served at bàcari (“BAH-car-eeh”), small, local bars hidden all over Venice, they’re also cheap, ranging from about €1 to €3. What’s on offer depends on the place; some bàcari lean toward fried offerings, while others specialize in fresh fish, meats, cheeses… the list goes on. Cicchetti are usually accompanied by a small glass of local white wine, which the locals refer to as an "ombra" (shadow).From Venice With Love,Giada #giadavalenti #PBS #FromVeniceWithLove #food #Venice #Cichetti#Italianfood #venetian food
Venice Fun Fact of the day:There are a little over 400 gondoliers in Venice.But Venice got its first female gondolier in 2010 ending 900 years of male dominance in the profession.Giorgia Boscolo, 24, has become the first woman to pass the Italian city’s strict gondolier exam and be granted a full license.Love,
Giada
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Venice Fun fact of the day:The first woman to graduate in the world was Venetian: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia. She was the first woman in the world to receive a university degree of any kind! Elena Lucrezia Cornaro, a member of a noble Venetian family, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1678 from the University of Padua, Italy. It was an accomplishment unparalleled for the time.You can find a small plaque remembering her on a wall of the building where she was born on the Grand Canal (now the town hall of Venice),
Happy day and love,
Giada
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Did you know?The Bridge of Sighs was built to connect the old prison in Doge’s Palace with the new one across the river. The name sighs indicate the last breath of the prisoners in the free world because, once convicted in the kingdom of Dogi they never could go back. One of the rare people escaping the prison was famous lover Giacomo Casanova.Today, its symbol is over-romantic and it is perhaps the biggest attractions in Venice. It is said that if a couple passes under the Bridge of Sighs their love will last forever.
Love,
Giada
