Venice Italy with Noah, Troy and Momma: Venice Italy 2017 Squero di San Trovaso Gondola Makers

Squero di San Trovaso

We happened by chance to walk past the squero di san Trovaso - a small shipyard used in Venice to build and repair small boats such as gondolas. I recognized it just because I had seen a picture of it in some magazine or online while traveling to Italy. Its website bills it as Venice's most famous squero. It does stand out from all of the surrounding buildings with its different architecture and having such an open area on the corner of two intersecting canals. Even today, they build gondolas by hand - no machines.

They do provide tours of this squero but only for groups of at least 25 people. It was just the three of us so a tour wasn't readily available, and I don't recall a bridge close by.

Neat seeing all of the gondolas under repair or being built in the background
that will eventually just be slid into the waters of the canal.

We made our way around the east end of this section of Venice and had lunch at the Corner Pub - a tiny little restaurant at the end of a narrow canal. We got there just before the lunch crowd starting filling up the tables.

View of the Canal

Corner Pub Street Sign

We ate at the table behind me.

We ended this day back on St. Mark's Square, carefully avoiding the street vendors. I'm pretty sure we stopped back by La Caravella before getting back to Gio & Gio. After momma's poor first impress of Venice with the dark, narrow and damp alleyway, today definitely made her and both us feel better.