Spot the Bridge of Sighs

Spot a Burano colourful house

Take a vaporetto to Burano and find the row of brightly painted fisherman's houses. Photograph a colourful canal-front.

Spot a cicchetti bar (bacaro)

Find a bacaro (Venetian cicchetti bar) with crostini and ombre wine glasses on the counter. Photograph the spread.

Spot a fritole or frittelle

Find a tray of fritole (Venetian doughnut balls with cream or raisins) in a bakery window or on a café tray. Photograph the powdery balls.

Spot a fritti misti or sarde in saor

Find a Venetian classic plate (fritto misto of seafood, sarde in saor sweet-and-sour sardines) in a trattoria or bacaro. Photograph the plate.

Spot a gondola

Find a gondola moored on a canal or in motion, the long black boat with the iron prow. Photograph it.

Spot a Murano glass piece

Find a Murano glass shop with hand-blown vases, chandeliers, fish or millefiori pendants. Photograph the colours.

Spot a Murano glass-blowing demo

Take a vaporetto to Murano and find a glass-blowing workshop with the furnace and glassblowers at work. Photograph the molten glass.

Spot a Rialto market stall

Walk into the Rialto fish or fruit market and find a stall with octopus, sardines or stacked vegetables. Photograph the catch.

Spot a striped-shirt gondolier

Find a gondolier in his uniform: striped Breton shirt, dark trousers, straw hat with a ribbon. Photograph him at the oar.

Spot a vaporetto

Find a vaporetto (water bus) at a stop or in motion on the Grand Canal. Photograph the boat with the canal behind.

Spot a Venetian carnival costume window

Find a costume shop with full Venetian Carnival costumes (cloaks, gowns, tricorn hats) in the window. Photograph the display.

Spot a Venetian gondola squadra

Find a gondola squero (workshop) where gondolas are built and repaired (San Trovaso, San Pietro). Photograph the wooden hulls being shaped.

Spot a Venetian house with laundry

Look up between two narrow houses and find laundry strung across the calle. Photograph the line.

Spot a Venetian mask shop

Find a Venetian Carnival mask shop with rows of feathered, gilded, beaked masks in the window. Photograph the collection.

Spot a Venetian narrow calle

Find an especially narrow Venetian alley (calle) where you can almost touch both walls. Photograph the slot.

Spot a Venetian pigeon in St Mark's

Walk into Piazza San Marco and find the pigeons in flight or perched. Photograph the birds with the basilica or campanile in shot.

Spot a Venetian street water tap

Find a Venetian iron drinking water tap with the city's coat of arms in a campo. Photograph the tap.

Spot a Venetian sundial or wall clock

Find a Venetian astronomical clock, sundial or painted clock face on a palazzo. Photograph the timepiece.

Spot a Venetian well-head (vera da pozzo)

Find a stone well-head in a campo (Venetian square). Photograph the carved cylindrical well.

Spot a Venetian winged lion

Find a winged Lion of St. Mark (on the column in Piazzetta, on the Doge's Palace facade, on a venetian flag or building). Photograph the lion.

Spot a Venice mooring pole (briccola)

Find a striped mooring pole (briccola) sticking out of the water on the lagoon side. Photograph the pole against the water.

Spot an Aperol spritz

Find an orange Aperol spritz at a café table (Venice is the spritz capital). Photograph the glass with the olive and orange slice.

Spot an Italian flag from a balcony

Find an Italian tricolor flag flying from a Venetian balcony or palazzo. Photograph the flag against the palazzo.

Spot the Acqua Alta bookshop

Find the Libreria Acqua Alta in Castello, with books stacked in bathtubs and gondolas inside. Photograph the famous interior.

Spot the Basilica San Marco facade

Find the Basilica di San Marco on Piazza San Marco. Photograph the five gold-mosaiced arches.

Spot the Ca' d'Oro facade

Find the Ca' d'Oro (Golden House) on the Grand Canal, the gothic palazzo with the lacework facade. Photograph from a vaporetto or the opposite bank.

Spot the Campanile of St Mark's

Find the brick Campanile in Piazza San Marco, the 99-metre bell tower. Photograph it against the sky.

Spot the Doge's Palace pink facade

Walk to Palazzo Ducale next to the basilica. Photograph the pink-and-white diamond-pattern facade with the loggia.

Spot the Rialto Bridge

Find the Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal. Photograph the white marble arch with the shops on it.