Venice is an impossible city. Not just metaphorically: though it is impossibly beautiful, impossibly romantic, impossibly unique. But it is also literally impossible. Refugees from nearby cities like Padua, Treviso and Altino fled into the lagoon islands in the fifth century and their descendents elected the first doge, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, in AD 697. Their […]
Author Archives: Eliot Wilson
Eliot Wilson is policy editor of Culturall. A writer and strategic adviser, he is co-founder of Pivot Point Group, and is also a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and City AM. He was previously a clerk in the House of Commons.
