{"id":2689,"date":"2013-04-23T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2013-04-23T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:04:39","slug":"the-most-beautiful-bookshop-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"The Most Beautiful Bookshop In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2704\" alt=\"shop1\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shop1.jpg\" width=\"346\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We were in Venice last week, lost, and chilly. In search of the third spritz of the afternoon, we&#8217;d taken a walk down an alley, then another, and found ourselves in a tiny, mossy courtyard, when abruptly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;WELCOME to the most beautiful bookshop in the world&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Libreria Acqua Alta.\u00a0Part curiosity shoppe, part bottomless book-dump (good luck if you&#8217;re after a specific title) the Libreria Acqua Alta &#8220;looks like your corner of the living room&#8221;, according to Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;F\u00fcr Katzen&#8217;, said a card propped up against a rather damp bowl of kibble.\u00a0Inside, camera-shy kitties reclined on mounds of catalogues, faded postcards\u00a0of American government buildings from the 1960s, and reproduction antique maps. In a landlocked gondola, Tintoretto languished with Taschen&#8217;s Big Penis Book (3D, in case you&#8217;re interested). The sweet, faintly worrying smell of paper-rot bloomed with varying intensity as we delved deeper into the labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2709\" alt=\"sales2\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sales2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2711\" alt=\"shop3\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shop3.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2714\" alt=\"shop4\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shop4.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2753\" alt=\"sale8\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sale8.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"379\" \/> I know what you&#8217;re thinking. Where&#8217;s the fire escape?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2741\" alt=\"shop7\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shop7.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"389\" \/>Nailed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in Venice last week, lost, and chilly. 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