Geisterspuk in the lagoon.

For centuries, tourists loved almost to death, Venice still harbors secrets. Three tours tell of the lesser-known facets of the lagoon city: from restless ghosts, hidden gardens and the first Jewish ghetto in the world.

 

Venice of the Ghost: From Wiedergängern and matricide

Panting strives a man stooped over the empty Campo. Whether he is the spirit of Bartolomio Zenni is? Des miserly IMF, the 1437 fire at a neighbor instead of the children prefer to be rescued goods and chattels, and since his death with a heavy sack on his back around to? No, probably not. The Lord of the dark place it is by his dachshund on a leash next move, he barely behind. But what is it there? Cross the bridge, a narrow shadow flits. One of the fairies with goat feet, the wealth, but also the death can bring?

If it is night in Venice, then feel sensitive to the presence of the souls of deceased long ago - and everyone will enjoy the showers, which the legends of the ancient city back to them on the hunt. When the darkness comes, then the streets in the orange glow of the street lamps as in candle light. The outpouring of thousands of tourists throughout the day on St Mark's Square Brandet, has ebbed, the noise of the water taxis on the Canal Grande silenced. Only whisper and quiet laughter, steamed dishes rattling and soft music waft over the scraps of crumbling facades.

In the more than 1500 years since its founding, the lagoon city Gorgeous spawned, yet here was hated and murdered, betrayed and deceived, enslaved and fought - enough material for hours of horror stories. Andrea tells them with devotion to the city tour "Venetian legends": "? And then wandered the man with the heart of his mother in the hand over the bridge there," the 25-year-old student shows the Rio dei Mendicanti, "and crashed. The heart said to him: 'Did you hurt? " - Because he understood that he murdered his own mother had crashed into the lagoon and drowned. "

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Andrea makes a dramatic pause. "Seen it all had Cesco Pizzigani. A stone in the 15th century, the facade of the Scuola de San Marco Evangelista created, but later as a beggar before the portal closed." He points to scores in the entrance arch of the Scuola, which clearly represent a figure: "He scratched a figure in stone, with a heart in his hand." The Venetians is the evidence enough for the atrocity over 500 years. And convince doubting perhaps the plaintive cries, at night on the Campo before Basilica San Zanipolo sound. The spirit of this young man still looks at the heart of his mother. In any event, says Andrea.

The channel is howling suddenly a boat to the waves splash against the walls. The small group frightens together. After two hours of stories of murder and self Wiedergängern on Satanism and betrayal is the peaceful Venice to become ghost train. What does the mere whimper behind the Basilica? Is it really the body of the treasonous Doge Marin Faliero, since 1355 after his beheading his head examined? The Moorish sculptures, then at the Palazzo Mastelli? Are not the merchants, the punishment for fraud have been turned to stone? On the way home is the old town is no longer the same.

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