One day in Venice is enough to fall in love. Two days is enough to begin to understand. The difference between a 24-hour visit and a 48-hour visit to Venice is not simply a matter of more sights — it is a qualitative change in what the experience can be. With two days, you can […]

There is a museum in Venice that most visitors to the city never find. It sits on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere, three minutes’ walk from the Accademia and five minutes from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Its facade — one of the finest examples of Venetian Baroque architecture, begun by Baldassare Longhena and […]

There are two kinds of visitors to Venice. The first goes to the Doge’s Palace and St Mark’s Basilica, queues, marvels, photographs, and moves on. The second goes to the Gallerie dell’Accademia.

Venice is, by almost any measure, one of the great cities of the world. But it is also a city of 7.5 square kilometres, built on islands, surrounded entirely by water. Its hinterland — the broad, fertile plain of the Veneto stretching westward and northward from the lagoon to the Dolomites — is not part […]