More than 160 aerial photographs, taken by Riccardo Roiter Rigoni from helicopters over five years, showcase the myriad islands of the Venetian lagoon including glass-blowing Murano, colourful fishing port Burano, vegetable-growing Sant’Erasmo, the medieval time capsule of Torcello, and the cemetery island of San Michele. The anthropologist Debora Gusson describes the history of each, before the book zooms in on the domes and campaniles of the starfish-shaped Serenissima itself.
Venice from the Sky is an outstanding photographic record by Riccardo Roiter Rigoni and Debora Gusson, the fruit of five years' regular flying by helicopter over Venice and its Lagoon. The flights were not confined to the city of Venice, but included all the islands of the splendid Lagoon, from Torcello to Burano, by way of Murano, as well as the wonderful island of San Francesco del Deserto, the military defences in the southern part of the Lagoon, the Lido and Pellestrina, not to mention the many now abandoned islands, large and small, located in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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