{ "id": 11171, "date": "2020-03-09T11:57:54", "date_gmt": "2020-03-09T10:57:54", "guid": { "rendered": "https:\/\/athletamag.com\/?p=11171" }, "modified": "2025-08-02T17:37:04", "modified_gmt": "2025-08-02T15:37:04", "slug": "my-world-is-venice", "status": "publish", "type": "post", "link": "https:\/\/athletamag.com\/en\/my-world-is-venice\/", "title": { "rendered": "My world is Venice" }, "content": { "rendered": "

The steel of bowls, the salt on the walls, my world is small but immense<\/span><\/h2><\/div>
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From here I can smell them.<\/strong>\u00a0I wait until April, maybe May. They\u2019re short, wide and flat, with a green color that can turn to gray. To catch them we use trezze, nets, laying them in the shallows of the lagoon. And then we use serraglie to help us.<\/p>\n

The first player\u2019s already thrown the jack \u2026 now we\u2019ll see some real bowls!<\/em><\/p>\n

Serraglie are long barriers of poles and nets, we put them in the water at the beginning of the season and we wait patiently for the first warmth of spring.\u00a0Clean and orderly.<\/strong>\u00a0Connected to them are cogolli, traps that resemble small funnels where they inevitably end up. They must end up there.\u00a0Everything that we catch is thrown into burlap bags to keep the right humidity and to transport them into the thatched fisheries, where we sort them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First game! First bowl of four. I feel lucky \u2026 I feel unbeatable! Step up to the line \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Inside the fisheries we see which are the softest, the ones that are changing their shell.\u00a0The others we throw back into the sea.<\/strong>\u00a0Those that are selected are then placed in wooden boxes and semi submerged in salt water, to allow seasonal molting.<\/p>\n

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