"Peeling pink, white with black tears, those are the colors that first catch your eye. Then green and black." This is how Jean-Paul Sartre described his travel impressions in 1951, which were published posthumously in the collection "Queen Albemarle or the Last Tourist." During the day, La Serenissima is flooded with thousands of day-trippers. It's worth settling in the lagoon for a few days. Then, in the evenings and especially early in the morning, you can catch a more uninterrupted view of this historic city and get a sense of its long-gone glory.