{ "project": "Small Guide", "type": "city", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "country": "Italy", "curator": "André Ribeirinho", "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Small, edited lists of places, curated by André.", "url": "https://smallguide.to/venice", "updated": "July 2026", "symbols": { "◎": "Soulful", "◌": "Planned (not yet visited)" }, "places": [ { "name": "Osteria San Isepo", "slug": "osteria-san-isepo", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Castello", "country": "Italy", "category": "Eat", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Out of the way in eastern Venice, but worth the walk for the fresh, house-made pasta.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "La Patatina", "slug": "la-patatina", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Polo", "country": "Italy", "category": "Eat", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "An unfussy osteria for cicheti, fritti, and honest Venetian plates, no scene attached.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Estro", "slug": "estro", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Dorsoduro", "country": "Italy", "category": "Eat", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "The Spezzamonte brothers’ place; a serious natural-wine list with enough food behind it to become dinner.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Vini da Gigio", "slug": "vini-da-gigio", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Cannaregio", "country": "Italy", "category": "Eat", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Venetian cooking, a real cellar, and a dinner that should not be rushed.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Al Covo", "slug": "al-covo", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Castello", "country": "Italy", "category": "Eat", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Fish, small producers, and Venice trying to feed itself properly.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Vino Vero", "slug": "vino-vero", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Cannaregio", "country": "Italy", "category": "Drink", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "The original. A bacaro with a small counter, a serious natural list, finger-licking cicheti and a crowd that spills onto the canal.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Ostaria dai Zemei", "slug": "ostaria-dai-zemei", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Polo", "country": "Italy", "category": "Eat", "symbol": "◎", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Cicheti to rival any in the city, from an eat-with-your-eyes counter; grab a glass of Lugana to go with it.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Peggy Guggenheim Collection", "local_name": "Palazzo Venier dei Leoni", "slug": "peggy-guggenheim-collection", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Dorsoduro", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Modern art in Peggy Guggenheim’s unfinished palazzo on the Grand Canal; a collection shown at the scale of one woman’s life, not a museum wing.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore", "slug": "isola-di-san-giorgio-maggiore", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Giorgio", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Take the boat across for Palladio’s church and the bell tower that looks straight back at Venice, without the St Mark’s crowds.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Le Stanze della Fotografia", "slug": "le-stanze-della-fotografia", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Giorgio", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "A photography museum on the same island, in the old Cini convent; large, considered shows worth the crossing.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "St Mark’s Basilica", "local_name": "Basilica di San Marco", "slug": "st-marks-basilica", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Marco", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Gold mosaics by the acre; go early or late, brave the queue, and look up until your neck gives out.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Doge’s Palace", "local_name": "Palazzo Ducale", "slug": "doges-palace", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Marco", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Power rendered in pink stone and gilt; cross the Bridge of Sighs and see how a republic staged itself.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Torcello", "slug": "torcello", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Northern lagoon", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "The lagoon’s first city, now nearly empty; a boat north to Byzantine mosaics and grass where Venice began.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Mercato di Rialto", "slug": "mercato-di-rialto", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Polo", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "The market that still explains what Venice eats.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Cimitero di San Michele", "slug": "cimitero-di-san-michele", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Isola di San Michele", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "symbol": "◎", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "The cemetery island; a quiet crossing for remembering that Venice is not only spectacle.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Fondazione Giorgio Cini", "slug": "fondazione-giorgio-cini", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Giorgio", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Cross to San Giorgio for archives, exhibitions, and a different scale of silence.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Giardini della Marinaressa", "slug": "giardini-della-marinaressa", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Castello", "country": "Italy", "category": "Look", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "A waterfront garden east of San Marco; a green pause on the Biennale walk.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Negozio Olivetti", "slug": "negozio-olivetti", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "San Marco", "country": "Italy", "category": "Architecture", "symbol": "◎", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Carlo Scarpa’s 1958 showroom under the arcades; a masterclass in stone, water, and light, disguised as a shop.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "San Francesco della Vigna", "slug": "san-francesco-della-vigna", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Castello", "country": "Italy", "category": "Architecture", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "A Sansovino church behind a Palladio façade; a quiet Castello counterweight to the crowds.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Hotel Danieli", "local_name": "Palazzo Dandolo", "slug": "hotel-danieli", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Castello", "country": "Italy", "category": "Sleep", "symbol": "◎", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "A late-14th-century Gothic palace of the Dandolo doges, a grand hotel since 1822; ride up to the rooftop terrace for a wine and a view of Venice that barely seems real.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Verona", "slug": "verona", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Veneto", "country": "Italy", "category": "Beyond", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "A little over an hour west by train; the Roman arena, Renaissance streets, and a wine list at Antica Bottega del Vino that runs on for pages.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Venice Architecture Biennale", "slug": "venice-architecture-biennale", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Giardini / Arsenale", "country": "Italy", "category": "Events", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "A city that already performs architecture, turned into an argument every two years.", "judgment_status": "selected", "experience_status": "visited", "visited": true, "public": true }, { "name": "Venice Art Biennale", "slug": "venice-art-biennale", "city": "Venice", "local_city_name": "Venezia", "area": "Giardini / Arsenale", "country": "Italy", "category": "Events", "symbol": "◌", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Marked because Venice is never only the city; sometimes it is the world passing through rooms.", "judgment_status": "marked", "experience_status": "researched", "visited": false, "public": true } ], "rituals": [ { "title": "Arrive by water, early", "area": "Lido → the city", "symbol": "◎", "year_added": 2026, "public_line": "Take the vaporetto in from the Lido and enter the monumental city early, while it’s still waking up. And once in a lifetime, ride it at night, when the city and its shadows belong to the moonlight.", "google_maps_url": "https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&origin=Lido,+Venezia&destination=Piazza+San+Marco,+Venezia" } ] }