At the heart of the Belmond Hotel Cipriani lies the swimming pool with the adjacentGabbiano Bar, the most exclusive place in which to savour the "dolce vita" in trueVenetian style. It is here that people meet and cocktails are born, often inspired bythe suggestions and stories of the guests themselves, celebrities that have madetheir mark on the bar's creations.For more than 40 years, the Head Barman, Walter Bolzonella, has been translatingthe guests' motions into a fusion of fragrance, colour and flavour to match theirmood: "Cocktails in Venice. Tales of a Barman" is the diary of his inspiring 'laboratory'in which new drinks become classics and classics are refreshed with novel twists.In it, he reveals his precious recipes - from the famous Bellini to the Lucky Spritz,and from the Hidden Liquid to Casanova's Inspiration - illustrated throughout by thewatercolors of Matteo Bertelli.