The first thing to say about Venice and accessibility is this: Venice is significantly more accessible than most visitors with limited mobility expect, and significantly less accessible than an ideal city would be. Both of these facts are important, and this guide addresses both honestly.
The most common concern parents have about bringing children to Venice is that the city will not be child-friendly. No playgrounds (or very few), lots of bridges to carry pushchairs over, a complex street network that seems designed to confuse adults let alone children, and the general assumption that culture-heavy destinations are better suited to […]
Venice is, in its most fundamental character, a walking city. There are no cars, no bicycles, no motorbikes, no wheeled transport of any kind in the historic centre. Everything and everyone moves on foot across the 400 bridges that connect the city’s 118 islands, through the network of calli (streets), sotoporteghi (covered passageways), campielli (small […]
Venetian cuisine is one of the most underestimated regional food traditions in Italy — overshadowed in the popular imagination by the pizza of Naples, the pasta of Bologna and the simplicity of Tuscan cooking, despite being arguably more distinctive than any of them. This is partly a problem of geography: Venice’s food culture is genuinely […]
The tourist Venice and the real Venice are the same city separated by about 500 metres. The tourist route runs from the train station to St Mark’s Square via the Strada Nova and the Rialto — a corridor of extraordinary monuments, gift shops and tourist restaurants through which millions of people pass each year without […]
There is no vessel more associated with Venice than the gondola. It appears on every postcard, in every film set in the city, in the imagination of every visitor before they arrive. It is simultaneously the most iconic image in Venetian tourism and, for many visitors, the experience about which they have the most uncertainty: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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