Glorified by poets, Venice is one of the most visited and famous cities in the world. Tiziano Scarpa offers to look at it from a new perspective. Venice is a fish. If you look closely at its contours on a geographical map, it resembles a giant flounder sprawled on the bottom of a lagoon, or a sea bream gliding along a wave. Venice is a turtle. Her stone shell is made of gray rubble, which lines the streets. Venice is a place where you need to throw away the map and get lost. Scarpa reveals the city secrets known only to Venetians, the original language of Venice, necessary in order to get to know the city better. The author encourages the reader to use all senses: touch, hear, see, feel the city; the mind must give way to feelings, namely the heart, which you certainly cannot order in Venice.