You finally arrive in Venice, Italy for your dream vacation. After the saving, the planning, the packing, the long flight, you are finally there. You decide to sit and savor the moment in the Piazza San Marco with your first real Italian cappuccino. Then…
After spending more than three years covered in scaffolding and advertisements the Bridge of Sighs in Venice has reopened. In 2007 a piece of marble fell off the adjoining Doge’s Palace and struck a German tourist in the leg. The restoration cost…
In few places can it be claimed that the entire city is one panoramic work of art. There seems barely a building in Venice that does not contain hundreds of years of precious historical testimony. Of course, much changed down the centuries. A great deal of…
Venice is a city beyond description and compare. Or as the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning put it in 1851: “Nothing is like it; nothing is equal to it, not a second Venice in the world.” – Reprinted from National Geographic Traveler
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Engineers love Venice – a completely man-made environment rising from the sea, with no visible means of support. Romantics revel in its atmosphere of elegant decay, seeing the peeling plaster and seaweed-covered stairs as a metaphor for beauty in…
Visitors to Venice, Italy who plan to stay overnight will now be taxed for the privilege. Overnight visitors will have as much as 10 extra Euros added to their hotel bills. At 5€ (about $7.25 in 2011) a night the new visitor tax is expected to add an additional…
It is no mystery why Venice, Italy appears on many lists as the number one “dream destination” of people planning a foreign vacation. Venice is mysterious, romantic and well a little intimidating without some help from a guidebook. The canals combined…
The uniquely romantic city of Venice was built entirely on water and has managed to survive into the 21st century without cars. Narrow alleyways and canals pass between sumptuous palaces and magnificent churches, colorful neighborhood markets and…
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