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Most people will agree that Venice is the one of most romantic cities in the world, with its old architecture and the feeling of being in a world of its own that inevitably assails every tourist who steps out of the Santa Lucia train station.

But there’s much more to that. Venice is definitely a place where people live differently from everywhere else on mainland Italy and, probably, the rest of the world. Time is dilated as everywhere you have to get to must be reached on foot or by means of a slow boat, dashing in the midst of palaces that are several centuries old.

So, visiting Venice can mean more than simply scrambling to reach San Marco square surrounded by a huge number of tourists holding their cameras. It’s more about walking in small alleys, possibly in autumn, at night, or getting lost in its maze while on a bar trip...