Tourists keen to see island where couple exchanged vows, seven-star hotel where they stayed and paths trodden by their celebrity guests
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or the residents of Venice who travel daily through the city’s waterways, the small wooden floating jetty outside the Gritti Palace hotel is nothing special, “no different to a London underground stop,” as Igor Scomparin, a tour guide, puts it.
But for a certain type of tourist it is a must-see spot. In June last year, Kim Kardashian disembarked from a water taxi here and navigated its planks during the five-day wedding of the billionaire Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist.
The reality TV star was among the scores of celebrities and members of the world’s super-rich who had descended on the city to celebrate the nuptials, which included everything from pyjama parties to elegant dinners, and provoked widespread protests by anti-Bezos campaigners who threatened to disrupt the festivities by letting loose a convoy of inflatable crocodiles into the city’s canals.
