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 […]

There are two ways to spend a morning in Venice. The first is to join the flow of visitors moving from the station towards St Mark’s Square — through the Lista di Spagna, across the Scalzi bridge, along the Strada Nova — in a procession that reaches the Piazza by mid-morning and disperses into queues […]

There is no wrong time to visit Venice. This is one of the few travel clichés that is actually true — the city rewards visitors in every season, and each period of the year offers a version of Venice that is impossible to experience at any other time. The fog-softened silences of January. The blossom-scented […]