Street Photography, People & Portraits, Architecture & Statuary, Using Light and Shadow, Reactivity to situations, Creativity and Learning to see

• Walk 1 – Basin of Saint Mark, Public Gardens, Palace of The International Exhibition of Modern Art

• Historic - This Area (Public gardens) was the poor and picturesque suburb of fishermen, lace-makers, the poor people described by Carlo Goldoni (the famous Venetian writer) in his comedies

• Photographic theme - Urban Landscape (the Islands of the Basin of Saint Mark), Architecture & Statuary  

• Walk 2 – Paludo di Sant’Antonio, Fondamenta Sant’Anna, Ponte di Quintavalle, Campo di San Pietro di Castello

• Historic - This itinerary passes trough one of the most characteristic district of the city Paludo di Sant’Antonio was obtained by filling in the marsh which gives it its name, Fondamenta Sant’Anna along the little canal (rio) we can see the picturesque row of tall chimneys on the poor dwellings facing it. Church of San Pietro The former Cathedral of Venice

• Photographic theme - Street photography (finally), Architecture & Statuary, and a little surprise an old (very old) carpenter Pinocchio maker

• Walk 3 – Iron Bridge of St. Peter’s, Calle Larga, Calle di San Gioacchino, the wall surrounding the Arsenale, Via Garibaldi

• Historic - Via Garibaldi, that is the Napoleonic Via Eugenia, opened in 1807 by filling in a canal, it is one of the most populous streets in the Sestiere di Castello, it is a centres of the life of the working classes with a fish and vegetable market; it’s also a meeting point, with a large number of bars and restaurants

• Photographic theme - Thinking Around the edges, Statues, Street Photography, Food and Culture, Portraits - People - How to approach them

• Walk 4 – Calle di San Francesco di Paola, Campo della Tana, Fondamenta and Campo dell’Arsenale, Arsenale (Porta di Terra), Campo San Martino

• Historic - Various Calli and Corti where the folk live,  the typical Venetian Campiello centre of family life, where the women, surrounded by number of plying children, sit and work but mainly chat. The Venice Arsenale is a big building from whose yards the powerful war fleet and merchant navy went out to sea, making the wealth and greatness of Venice for centuries. In period of maximum activity over 16.000 men worked there

• Photographic theme - Architecture & Statuary, Culture, Portraits - People - How to Approach them

• Walk 5 –  Salizzada, Campo, and Church of San Francesco della Vigna - Church of the Knights of Malta, School of San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Church of San Lorenzo (nice to photograph the cats nursery), The Church and Campo of Santa Maria Formosa

• Historic - This itinerary passes trough the characteristic lower class Sestiere of Castello, although at this time is “overwhelmed” by too many B&B, Chinese shops, and Arabs restaurants

• Photographic theme - Culture, Portraits, Reactivity to situations, Street Photography
  

• You may feel the urge to escape the crowds and put some distance between yourself and the jam-packed Piazza San Marco. Rest assured, life continues as normal in the Venetians Venice, for example in Castello, a bustling working-class district fifteen minutes east of the Piazza San Marco. In the biggest and most highly populated of Venice's six Sestieri (districts), washing still hangs out to dry at the windows, the elderly quietly go about their shopping, and bambini play football in the streets. The district grew up from the thirteenth century around a naval dockyard although there had been small settlements of the islands of San Pietro di Castello (for which the Sestiere is named), also called Isola d’Olivolo, since at least the eighth century. In Castello the antic yards of the Arsenale have centre also. Constructed in the XII sec., the Arsenale represented for Venice the way in order to reaffirm just the external prestige and the strongest of just the mercantile role. Subsequently it assumed the role of "yard of State". Currently military zone, the Arsenale encloses the Naval Historical Museum. As you go up the Fondamenta S. Anna, you will pass a boat full of fruit and vegetables moored to the quay; the locals come here to fill their shopping bags with small purple artichokes, asparagus and lettuce from the Venice island of Sant’Erasmo. The Via Garibaldi, the city's widest street (17.5 m, 57.4 ft) which stands on the former Rio di Castello, filled in on Napoleon's orders. An airy, lively street, dotted with many cafés, and some good small osterie (wine bars), the Via Garibaldi is a pleasant place for a stroll. Nearby, a trattoria called Sottoprova which means "conditional" - evokes the prison past of some of the inhabitants of Castello...

This is the popular district covered by our Workshop, where you can enjoy the quiet life of every day