We arrived in Venice on Tuesday evening. At the start, we can say that we were tourists in a touristic city. We wanted to see the canals, the gondolas, in short all the most well-known features and monuments. We just followed the indications leading to place San Marco, being amazed by all bridges and taking pictures along our trail. However, we probably were missing a lot of the things.
 
Tourists go after what is indicated in travel books, that is going from one point to another, from a church to a museum for instance. The streets the usual tourist cross are only for them a means to reach an end, and not the end itself. On this way, they don’t pay attention to all the things around them, but all the buildings they walk by without seeing them might be interesting.

On Wednesday afternoon, we arrived at Ponte di Chiodo, which is the last rampfree bridge of Venice. It sure is a unique and telling place, but people who are not careful don’t even notice it. And while we were taking pictures of it, we saw a lot of people who kept walking without even looking at it.
This strikes us as a revelation of our agenda of the day, which was to look at hidden places, some that you see, some that you don’t. We better understand what our journey was, that is analyzing this phenomenon : seeing without seeing !