What remains of the Venice City and the life of its inhabitants? How do the Venetians who have remained in the historic centre live and around which places does their social life develop? Looking for a response to these questions, I spoke with the few friends who remained in the lagoon, trying to understand what spaces they frequent in their daily lives. There are places around which an important part of the families' extracurricular and extra-work life develops: the patronages scattered throughout the islands and the sports grounds attached to them. These patronages, oratories, schools are segregated places where Venetians can do activities without crossing paths with tourists. They are not only frequented for activities related to religious life, but are almost the only places for city gatherings run mainly by associations, parish priests or schools. ‘Lo spazio che resta’ (The space that remains) focuses on the representation of these urban spaces wedged between buildings, churches and fields in the historic city and hidden behind walls that separate them from the city and tourists. They have irregular shapes generated from the remaining space in the dense Venetian urban structure. Symbolically, these spaces represent Venetians who make a part of their lives here and why they need to struggle to find a space in which they can identify themselves, separated from their hyper-tourised surroundings.