What’s it like to grow up in Venice | Young and European

For many, Venice in Italy is a dream vacation destination; for around 50,000 people, it is the place they call home. But what is it like to grow up in the historic center of the city with its bridges and canals and to be surrounded by crowds of tourists every day? We follow 18-year-old Nicholas Pettenello, who tells us what life is like as a student here.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:34 Breakfast
01:24 Getting around in Venice
03:04 Student life
04:13 Living among tourists
04:39 Family life
05:22 Leisure activities
07:07 Outro

CREDITS
Report: Josephine Günther
Camera: Robert Richter
Edit: Robert Richter
Supervising Editors: Mirja Viehweger, Ruben Kalus

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[dweuromaxx]

Could you imagine growing up in Venice?

[enriconono]

Please guys, don't put the Tarantella music on every italian city video, the Tarantella is compatible with Venice like the Flamenco is with Paris, it's simply a totally different culture from the south where that music was created. I had to say it because it's always the same with documentaries about Italy. If you want to look at a venetian musician look at Vivaldi for example.

[omarhamid]

Lovely! Great to see an educated, well spoken and polite young man taking us around one the most beautiful and enchanting cities in the world 👏

[andreab]

Venice is a very healthy place for kids. It's safe, no cars, they can play in the streets

[mafaldarusso]

Tarantella napoletana di sottofondo... a posto!

[pigoff]

Great job. So proud of you. I only hear from my daughter or grand kids when they need something. In Germany it is the same where a whole family lives in the same house.😊

[fabriziopastorino]

usual things done without study, the tarantella in Venice is like the sirtaki to the waltz

[EA]

He is so sweet ❤️ typical Italian man always spoiled by grandma !😂

[Thomas-fuvp]

The Pettenello Toy shop in Campo Santa Margherita closed in 2005 .

[kaffir]

1:00 Nick is so cute. Such a good boy. And so well spoken ❤❤❤

[c_cma]

Ciao. Salut. Hello from Bucharest, Romania - a huge underrated city in Europe:)

[ricardoito]

Vendo os habitantes locais em seus cotidianos em cidades como Veneza, compreendemos a necessidade de preservar a cidade como uma cidade real e não deixar que vire um parque temático, preservando a cidade, viabilizando-a para seus moradores poderem morar e terem uma existência normal com seu cotidiano.
Sem os moradores, só existe um cenário morto. Seria como visitar uma cidade fantasma, ou pior: um shopping center de mau gosto à céu aberto.

[Happinessiselusive]

Bit sad hearing about the smoking and drinking but I'd love to bring my granddaughter up in Italy. Loved Venice.

[loveisall]

I love to see these young men playing cards! So neglected by young people here in the US.

[faganquin]

i'm curious to know if he speaks the venetian dialect? do the teens speak it? google says 65% of local population does - but since his mom is american i wondered if dad passed it on.

[patrickfitzgerald]

Those young people have no clue that they are living in a fantasy-world bubble that is about to burst.