San Gaetano. Following the footsteps ofErnest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, the famous American writer and Nobel Prize winner in 1954, knew our landscape well. In Venice he met the nobleman baron Franchetti, with whom he shared the passion for duck hunting. This is why Franchetti often took Hemingway to San Gaetano, where the Venetian nobleman owned some estates, as well a villa and a hunting lodge. From this experience the American writer drew inspiration for some pages of his short novel “Across the River and into the Trees”, in which he describes Caorle and its lagoon with great vividness and wonder.