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choose from 45-plus wines by the glass and respectable tramezzini (sandwiches). Hold on
tight to your order, and let the crowd carry you outside to a campo corner table.
CAMPO SANTA MARGHERITA
Even in the dead of winter and the heat of summer, you can count on action here in Venice's nightlife hub. The
oblong, unruly square features a bevy of beverage temptations - including Imagina Café, Osteria alla Bifora, Ai
Do Draghi and Cantina di Millevini - but it also hosts a regular weekday fish market, the odd flea market and
periodic political protests. The nightly happy-hour scene unfolds like a live-action, 21st-century Veronese paint-
ing, with an animated, eclectic crowd of Italian architecture and foreign exchange students, gay and straight inter-
national hipsters, wise-cracking Venetian grandmothers and their knitwear-clad pugs.