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GROM €
MAP
GELATERIA
GOOGLE MAP
( 041 099 17 51;
www.grom.it
; Campo San Barnaba 2461; gelati €2.50-4; 11am-midnight Sun-Thu, to 1am Fri
& Sat; ; Ca' Rezzonico)
Lick the landscape at Grom, featuring Slow Food ingredients
from across Italy: lemon from the Amalfi Coast, pistachio from Sicily, hazelnuts from
Piedmont. Fair-trade chocolate and coffee sourcing helped win the Turin-based Grom chain
a 'Master of Slow Food' designation, but with seasonal flavours ranging from chestnut
cream to apricot sorbet, you might award it another honorary title: lunch.
TOP SIGHT
PUNTA DELLA DOGANA
Fortuna, the weathervane atop Punta della Dogana, swung Venice's way in 2005, when bureaucratic hassles in Par-
is convinced art collector François Pinault to showcase his works in Venice's long-abandoned customs warehouses.
Here massive installations include Chen Zhen's pure crystal versions of his diseased internal organs and Abdel Ab-
dessemed's drawings of Molotov-cocktail throwers propped on concert stands to create orchestrated violence.
The warehouses were built by Giuseppe Benoni in 1677 to ensure no ship entered the Grand Canal without pay-
ing duties. Re-opened in 2009 after a three-year reinvention by architect Tadao Ando, Venice's splashiest art space
pays its dues to the city's seafaring history and its changing architecture. Ando cut windows in Benoni's ancient
water gates to reveal cutaway views of passing ships, while his floating concrete staircases honour the innovations
of Venetian modernist Carlo Scarpa.
Upstairs, don't miss Maurizio Cattelan's haunting
All
: nine shrouded marble figures laid out on the floor, like
ghosts of Venice's plagued past.
DON'T MISS…
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Fortuna
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Tadao Ando interiors
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Rotating art installations
