But how sweet Venice is! The knowledge of a place also passes through its gastronomic culture, you know. And when we talk about Venetian cuisine we always think of salty dishes, wines, often forgetting about pastry. But the Venetian pastry shop is full of preparations and products that come from very ancient traditions, some even dating back to the times of the Serenissima.

Yes, because Venice made the acquaintance of sugar very early: arrived in the Lagoon after the Crusades of the twelfth century, it was traded by the noble family of Giorgio Corner who owned entire sugar cane plantations in Cyprus, where reigned his daughter Catherine Corner, who became Queen of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia for having married James of Cyprus.