Venice is never short of hidden histories, but the Scoletta Battioro e Tiraoro di Venezia, with its sun-faded pink facade and teal-green shutters opening onto the floating city’s Grand Canal, has a particularly evocative one: it was once home to the battiloro, artisans who hammered gold into threads finer than human hair, used to weave damasks and velvets for the shoulders of European royalty and nobility. The building was placed under the protectionhellip;

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