Category: Things To Do In Venice

Most visitors assume every bridge in Venice belongs to the city, the way a bridge would anywhere else. It’s a

When Oasis arrived in Venice for the world premiere of Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, the story was never

Ask most visitors what a Venetian palace was for, and they’ll picture something purely residential — a noble family’s grand

Spend a single afternoon wandering Venice without a fixed destination and you’ll lose count of how many times you turn

Ask a Venetian where the word “bacaro” comes from and you’ll get at least three confident, completely different answers —

Fly into Venice, or simply look down from a bridge on a sunny afternoon, and the color that hits you

Ask most visitors what a “scuola” is in Venice and you’ll get a blank look, or a guess about school

Look down instead of up on almost any Venetian canal and you’ll notice something that rarely makes it into guidebooks:

Somewhere between a church and a private chapel sits a category of Venetian building most visitors never learn the word

Walk along almost any minor canal in Venice, away from the Grand Canal’s palazzi, and you’ll notice something that would

New visitors to Venice usually arrive expecting one boat: the gondola. Within about ten minutes of actually being here, that

Venice trains you to look down, or straight ahead — at the pavement for the next nizioleto, at a doorway,

It’s easy to assume Venice has always looked the way it looks today — pale stone arches curving over green

Stand in almost any campo in Venice and look past the marble doorways and the Istrian stone trim, and you’ll

Long before Venice had street numbers, or even reliable street names, its shopkeepers solved a much older problem: how do

Ask most visitors to name a Venetian bridge and you’ll get the same two or three answers: the Rialto, the

Every visitor to Venice eventually has the same experience: phone out, blue dot spinning uselessly in the middle of a

Most people come to Venice looking down — into canals, through doorways, along the pavement for the next nizioleto sign.

Stand at the right spot on the Grand Canal and you can watch four centuries of Venetian taste go by

By the second or third hour of a hot afternoon, almost every visitor to Venice asks me some version of