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.
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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 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 Bridge of Sighs
Find the Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) connecting the Doge's Palace to the old prisons. Photograph from Ponte della Paglia.
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.