The city's oldest squero, a boatyard for building gondolas, is around the corner of two canals, San Trovaso and Ognissanti.
The boatyard is a startling sight: three wooden lofts constructed in a decidedly Tyrolean style appear like an oversized alpine cuckoo clock rising out of a lagoon.
Dating to the 17th century, the boatyard was built by the original gondola-makers, all natives of the Dolomite Mountains, where wood for boat-building was harvested.