Category: Things To Do In Venice

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

There’s a particular Venice moment every guest eventually has: walking down an ordinary calle, the sky suddenly disappears overhead, the

Ask any first-time visitor to read a Venice street sign out loud and you’ll usually get a confused pause, then

Walk through almost any Venetian sestiere for more than ten minutes and you’ll start to notice her: a small painted

Most visitors leave Venice thinking of it as a Gothic city, and it’s easy to see why — the pointed

Venice never had a Renaissance the way Florence did, and it never really wanted one. While the rest of Italy

Most visitors to Venice have a mental list of what counts as a monument: churches, palaces, bridges, maybe a museum

Every visitor to Venice eventually stands on the bank of the Grand Canal and wonders how to get to the

From Bare Earth to Herringbone BrickThe Venice we photograph today, with its uniform grey stone streets, wasn’t always paved at

1. Chiostro di Sant’Apollonia — The Oldest and QuietestIf you want proof that peace still exists a few hundred meters

Not Mooring Posts — A Recognition SystemThese poles are called pali da casada, and here’s the detail that surprises almost

From 6,000 to 600At the Republic’s peak, Venice depended on a staggering number of these structures. A census taken in

Venice doesn’t have a coastline in the way most cities do — it has fondamente and rive, the paved walkways

The Torre dell’Orologio: A Clock Built for an EmpireIn 1493, Venice’s Senate decided the city needed a clock worthy of

Most visitors look at a Venetian palace facade and see, at best, “pretty stone.” What they’re actually looking at is

There’s a square in Castello I bring nearly every guest to at some point, and it’s rarely on their radar