{"id":53,"date":"2016-10-17T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/blog\/venice\/?p=16"},"modified":"2016-12-20T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:22:36","slug":"bookstore-aqcua-alta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/2016\/10\/bookstore-aqcua-alta\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore Aqcua Alta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17\" src=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-15.jpg\" alt=\"Street entrance to Aqcua Alta bookstore\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street entrance to Aqcua Alta bookstore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Again a place that various sources recommended to visit. It&#8217;s a way of from main routes, to east from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rialto_Bridge\">Rialto bridge<\/a> and to northeast from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piazza_San_Marco\">St. Mark&#8217;s square<\/a>. It has a huge selection of books in Italy, but it was still worth visiting. And you might agree on the bold claim they make at the entrance from street: &#8220;the most beautiful bookshop in the World&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s name refers to regular winter event in venice &#8211; aqcua alta, high tide that raises water to streets and shops. Time when you need wellys. I haven&#8217;t seen it, but I sure want to. But back to bookstore. Amount of books is staggering. Where else would you find a bathtub full of Corto Maltese?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18\" src=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-16.jpg\" alt=\"A bathtub filled with various Corto Maltese comic books\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-16.jpg 960w, http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-16-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-16-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tubfull of Corto Maltese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Or a gondola filled with books or every wall side and nook filled with books?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" src=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-17.jpg\" alt=\"invisible_venice-17\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-17.jpg 960w, http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-17-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-17-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even back entrance is made of (discarded) books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-18.jpg\" alt=\"invisible_venice-18\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-18.jpg 960w, http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-18-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Invisible_Venice-18-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again a place that various sources recommended to visit. It&#8217;s a way of from main routes, to east from Rialto bridge and to northeast from St. Mark&#8217;s square. It has a huge selection of books in Italy, but it was still worth visiting. And you might agree on the bold &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bookstore Aqcua Alta - Artist and Photographer Harri Kemppainen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/harrikemppainen.com\/en\/2016\/10\/bookstore-aqcua-alta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bookstore Aqcua Alta - Artist and Photographer Harri Kemppainen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Again a place that various sources recommended to visit. 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