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Aliani Casa del Parmigiano
A cheese and cured-meats counter by the Rialto market, open since 1936, listed on the Veneto region's register of historic shops and still run by the founder's family.
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Attombri
A Rialto atelier where brothers Stefano and Daniele Attombri revived the historic Venetian craft of glass-bead stringing, turning antique Murano beads into jewelry and home objects.
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Ca' Macana
A Dorsoduro workshop that revived Venice's centuries-old tradition of hand-painted papier-mâché Carnival masks, famous for supplying masks to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
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Il Pavone di Paolo Pelosin
A tiny San Polo workshop where Paolo Pelosin hand-marbles paper using a technique over a thousand years old, turning it into journals, wrapping paper and stationery.
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Jesurum Venezia 1870
A historic Venetian lace and linen house founded in 1870 to revive traditional needle lace, later becoming official supplier to European royalty and now a luxury home-textile brand.
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Eataly
Ship home authentic Roman specialties — guanciale, pecorino, and more.
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Libreria Acqua Alta
A famously chaotic Castello bookshop that keeps its stock dry in gondolas, bathtubs, and a full-size boat.
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The Mercerie
Venice's oldest and busiest shopping route, a chain of narrow shop-lined streets linking Piazza San Marco to the Rialto Bridge since the days of the Republic.
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Venini
A Murano glassmaker founded in 1921, whose showroom on Fondamenta Vetrai still displays the artist collaborations that redefined 20th-century glass design.
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VizioVirtù Cioccolateria
An artisan chocolate laboratory near Corte del Milion making pralines, bars and its signature dense hot chocolate fresh on-site every day, without artificial additives.