In Venice, Italy, bartenders and residents will make you a spritz drink, which is not the white wine and soda or similar non-alcoholic mixer of the USA and UK, but a three-part drink. You mix one third Prosecco, one third Campari (a branded drink with a bitter herb flavour), and the last third is the carbonated non-alcoholic mixer.
I was told this by a sparkling-eyed retired Italian from Venice. He is from there and he and his wife live there part of the year.
Wikipedia says:
The drink is prepared with prosecco (or champagne) wine, a dash of some bitter liqueur such as Aperol, Campari, Cynar, or, especially in Venice, with Select. The glass is then topped off with sparkling mineral water.
I seem to remember a white wine Spritzer is a drink which is less alcoholic and cheaper. The spritz or sparkle is added by the cheaper drink.
I asked, "Is it to save money?"
His wife, equally gleeful at the memory, tells me,
"No, because Campari is quite expensive. We like the flavour!"
What to see and Do in Venice
St Mark's Square
Cathedral
Carnival
Carnival masks in museum
Glass Museum
Gondola ride
Walking tour of the original Ghetto and Jewish sites and sights
St Michael's Cemetery
Shop for glass, lace, masks, art and souvenirs
Lido beach.
Side trips or two centres?
Also in Italy:
Verona - Romeo and Juliet (statue of Juliet on baloney and house museum) and opera
Rome - Roman remains such as the Colosseum
Florence - Art Gallery and covered bridge
Venice Cemetery
Do you like history or music? Some famous people in the cemetery. Wikipedia says:
Where To Stay
As a teenager, I was taken by my parents to stay in Lido de Jesolo. My parents were disappointed that it was not on the mainland and involved time and money to travel into Venice. At that time staying at Lido de Jesolo offered a beach holiday as well as being cheaper than staying in the city.
Wikitravel has an extensive list of accommodation divided by price. Tripadvisor gives detailed reviews from the public.
Useful Websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_(alcoholic_beverage)
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
See my other posts on Italy and different posts in http://luxurytravelforless.co.uk
Books by Angela Lansbury are on amazon.com and lulu.com
I was told this by a sparkling-eyed retired Italian from Venice. He is from there and he and his wife live there part of the year.
Wikipedia says:
The drink is prepared with prosecco (or champagne) wine, a dash of some bitter liqueur such as Aperol, Campari, Cynar, or, especially in Venice, with Select. The glass is then topped off with sparkling mineral water.
I seem to remember a white wine Spritzer is a drink which is less alcoholic and cheaper. The spritz or sparkle is added by the cheaper drink.
I asked, "Is it to save money?"
His wife, equally gleeful at the memory, tells me,
"No, because Campari is quite expensive. We like the flavour!"
What to see and Do in Venice
St Mark's Square
Cathedral
Carnival
Carnival masks in museum
Glass Museum
Gondola ride
Walking tour of the original Ghetto and Jewish sites and sights
St Michael's Cemetery
Shop for glass, lace, masks, art and souvenirs
Lido beach.
Side trips or two centres?
Also in Italy:
Verona - Romeo and Juliet (statue of Juliet on baloney and house museum) and opera
Rome - Roman remains such as the Colosseum
Florence - Art Gallery and covered bridge
Venice Cemetery
Do you like history or music? Some famous people in the cemetery. Wikipedia says:
Along with neighbouring San Cristoforo della Pace, the island was a popular place for local travellers and fishermen to land. Mauro Codussi's Chiesa di San Michele in Isola of 1469, the first Renaissance church in Venice, and a monastery lie on the island, which also served for a time as a prison.
San Cristoforo was selected to become a cemetery in 1807, designed by Gian Antonio Selva, when under French occupation it was decreed that burial on the mainland (or on the main Venetian islands) was unsanitary. The canal that separated the two islands was filled in during 1836, and subsequently the larger island became known as San Michele. Bodies were carried to the island on special funeral gondolas. Among those buried there are Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Brodsky, Jean Schlumberger, Christian Doppler, Frederick Rolfe, Horatio Brown, Sergei Diaghilev, Ezra Pound, Luigi Nono, Catherine Bagration, Franco Basaglia, Paolo Cadorin, Zoran Mušič, Helenio Herrera, Emilio Vedova, and Salvador de Iturbide y Marzán. The cemetery is still in use today.
Where To Stay
As a teenager, I was taken by my parents to stay in Lido de Jesolo. My parents were disappointed that it was not on the mainland and involved time and money to travel into Venice. At that time staying at Lido de Jesolo offered a beach holiday as well as being cheaper than staying in the city.
Wikitravel has an extensive list of accommodation divided by price. Tripadvisor gives detailed reviews from the public.
Useful Websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_(alcoholic_beverage)
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
See my other posts on Italy and different posts in http://luxurytravelforless.co.uk
Books by Angela Lansbury are on amazon.com and lulu.com
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