A Visit to the Rialto Fish Market to See What’s Cooking in Venice

Venice Seafood

Rialto Fish Market - Mercato del Pesce in Venice: Getting up early for sightseeing isn't our idea of a fun thing to do on holidays, but to catch the action at the Rialto fish market (Mercato del Pesce) we made the effort. To see the stallholders receiving their barge loads of seafood supplies would have required us to be there at the crack of dawn, but we didn't bother.  We arrived at the percheria (fish market) at 8:00 a.m. to find the place was quite free of tourists and the only people … [Read more...]