Little Venice 2

The Venetian references introduced within the Alexandrian context pictures a magnificent blend of cultures.
Giacomo Loria’s “Little Venice” manifests the commitment and practices of the Italian Venetian professional in the heart of Alexandria’s historical East Harbor.
The building was awarded the best Municipality Honorary prize for best facades in 1929, for its Moorish arches that live in perfect harmony with the gothic detailing borrowed from Palazzo Ducale. The other side of the Heptastadion, along the corniche of the Eastern Harbor the bank links the Island of Pharos to the mainland. There, the facades are playing a charming symphony of styles on the graceful semicircular shoreline, memorizing a rich part of Alexandria's cosmopolitan era. Originally born in Egypt, Giacomo Alessandro Loria (1878 - 1937) returned back to Alexandria in 1914 after studying in Tuscany, where he soon became one of the city's most sought after architects. Loria presented his "Little Venice" (1926 - 1928) to S. Salem's family in addition to Douak & el Nokaly apartment blocks in Ramleh station.