The spritz is now one of the most popular cocktails in the world. It appears on menus from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, it has its own emoji in several phone keyboards, and Aperol — its most internationally recognised version — has achieved a level of global ubiquity that would have astonished the Venetians who invented […]

Every year in late August and early September, Venice — which for the preceding weeks has been managing the logistical and human pressures of peak tourist season — undergoes a transformation. The focus of the city shifts southward to the Lido, the long barrier island that separates the lagoon from the Adriatic. The Palazzo del […]

Every city of sufficient age accumulates its shadows — the stories that explain the things that cannot quite be explained, the legends that attach themselves to old buildings like moss to stone, the rumours that persist long after anyone can verify their origins. Venice, which has been accumulating history since the 5th century and which […]

Venice and solo travel are made for each other. This is not the conventional wisdom — the conventional wisdom says Venice is a city for couples, for romantic weekends, for the honeymoon gondola ride at sunset. And Venice is absolutely all of those things. But it is also, and perhaps more profoundly, a city for […]