This photo is perhaps not as 'scenic' as some, but I thought it might interest some of our readers. I had seen a photo in the National Geographic Traveler guide to Venice of Vitale Rossi, and his wife, Anna. The caption said that he was "the last luganegher, or prosciutto maker, in Venice." So I had to find the shop, which the book said was in Dorsoduro, and here it is. I learned that Vitale had died, but Anna lived just round the corner from the shop.
My understanding is that 'luganegher' means sausage-maker, but an on-line Venetian dictionary says it means a delicatessen shopkeeper.
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