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 […]