ByZoë Dare Hall,
Contributor.
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ou go to Venice for the water. That’s the whole point: the highly photogenic idiosyncrasy of an ancient city where everyone goes about much of their day-to-day lives in a floating fashion. “Everyone here wants a view of the water and it’s all about seeing the action,” says Michelangelo Ravagnan, founder of eponymous luxury real estate agency Ravagnan’s, whose own daily outings have recently revealed a surprise visitor.
“I was on my boat, taking a client to see a private island, when a dolphin emerged right next to us, in front of St. Mark’s Square,” says Ravagnan of the bottlenose beauty nicknamed Mimmo who—despite the hectic comings and goings of the many vaporetti, traghetti and gondole that ferry residents and tourists across the waterway—has taken up residence in the lagoon.
