With its beauty and its peculiar singularity as a historic city on the water, Venice has become a cultural symbol. It is a city that offers landscapes and views that have become collective objects, and which are often transformed into stereotypical images: islands emerging from the water, squares invaded by the tide, but also carnival masks and the sumptuous eighteenth-century Venice: Venice is a shared imaginative place.

Venice is also a symbol of the unconscious, a city that recurs in people's dreams, that is, a medium for expressing private and internal issues: the people who visit it and even those who have never been there retain it in their imagination and before or then they dream about it: what they see and experience becomes an unconscious metaphorical plot to express a psychic state.

By recounting the dreams of visitors, the book investigates the dream symbolism of Venice, offering a new perspective for understanding the city and its historical and cultural representations.