Venice has no garbage trucks | 🇮🇹 Exploring Italy (2026)

I spent three days in Venice watching the city work, and then couldn't work out how to leave it. There are no cars here, no garbage trucks, and no ground that wasn't put there by hand. Filmed in Venice, Italy — CHAPTERS 0:00 A bag of empty bottles 0:16 Nobody here 0:57 Venice at night 2:03 Campo del Ghetto Nuovo 3:30 Two wheels 5:00 Chase the boat 6:10 The part nobody films 9:49 Coming next: Lisbon — THINGS I LOOKED UP AFTERWARDS The word "quarantine" comes from Venice. During the plague, ships from infected ports had to anchor offshore for forty days — quaranta giorni — before anyone could land. "Ghetto" is also Venetian. In 1516 the city's Jewish population was confined to an area around an old foundry — geto in the local dialect. German-speaking arrivals pronounced it with a hard g, and the word travelled from there. So is "ciao" — from the Venetian s-ciào, originally a way of saying "your servant." The white street signs painted straight onto the plaster are called nizioleti. Little bedsheets. Under the city is a layer of hard clay called caranto. That's what the timber piles were driven down to. The Rialto fish market building is newer than it looks — the current Pescaria was designed by Domenico Rupolo and finished in 1907, in a deliberately Gothic style. #venice #italy #travel