Venice: Signs
Images of signage, commemorative lettering and temporary messages from the wonderful city of Venice. You can toggle the caption bar on and off by clicking on the image.
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- Very Venice! Typically confused and aged signs
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- One of many illuminated hanging signs
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- Shop next to the Accademia bridge
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- Tonolo ice cream parlour, early 60’s style
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- ‘Noli Me Tangere’ graffiti in the prison of the Doge’s palace
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- Punto: one of the local supermarkets in Dorsoduro
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- Incised and gilded name on a beautifully painted gondola
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- Official sign for the superintendent of the city archives
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- One of the top hotels on the Grand Canal: unfortunate name!
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- Ancient pharmacy in Campo San Polo
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- Don’t go there
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- Missing letter, adds mystery
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- Idiosyncratic lettering, Fondamenta Delle Zattere
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- Keep the city clean!
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- The Fortuny fabric building on Giudecca
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- Sign indicating the main direction that everyone asks for
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- Shop fascia board in Campo San Marco
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- Shop fascia board in Campo San Marco
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- Cafe fascia board in Campo San Marco
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- Cafe fascia board in Campo San Marco
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- Pavement mosaic sign near Rialto
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- Stencil cut lettering in a tobacconist’s near Rialto
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- Elegant art deco signage, San Polo
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- Fine signage near San Marco
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- Typical illuminated hanging sign
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- Beautiful incised lettering with some great examples of ‘making it fit’
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- Famous bar on a quiet rio
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- Official-capitals sign over a school door
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- Elegant Art Deco lettering on a famous gelateria (1)
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- Elegant Art Deco lettering on a famous gelateria (2)
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- Elegant Art Deco lettering on a famous gelateria (3)
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- Improvised lettering on an art gallery/shop
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- Typical illuminated hanging sign
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- Butcher’s shop with marble facade (1)
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- Butcher’s shop with marble facade (2)
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- Shop fascia board in Campo San Marco
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- Restrained lettering on war memorial, Campo Santa Margherita
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- Typical illuminated hanging sign
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- Shop fascia board in Campo San Marco
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- Archetypal Venetian palimpsest in Dorsoduro
