Destinations

The Other Venice | Jasper Sharp | Italy, Veneto, Venice

There are in fact two cities in northern Italy called Venice...One is the Venice of the tick-box tourist. Its twin, a reticent and less tawdry relative, is quite the opposite; a city known only to a few, but loved without exception.

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Football in Venice | Lee Marshall | Italy, Veneto, Venice

As most regulars have credit-card style season tickets, those queueing at the booths are mostly passing trade - including a surprising number of tourists, who trek out to the stadium on impulse

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Why Go To Venice? | Jamie Dunford Wood | Italy, Veneto, Venice

You either love it or you hate it here, but it’s a must see because there’s nowhere else like Venice.

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How to Eat and Drink in Venice | Lee Marshall | Italy, Veneto, Venice

Gourmet Venice is like a huge snakes and ladders board. The snakes are everywhere - surly service in top-flight restaurants that should know better, hidden extras that double the price of the most innocent bill...

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Hotels in Venice | Jamie Dunford Wood | Italy, Veneto, Venice

Hotels in Venice - at least on St Marks - are amongst the most expensive in Europe. The good news is that there are a handful in small, hideaway hotels and pensiones that few know about...

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Crime and Seduction in Venice | Julie Miller | Italy, Veneto, Venice

Within five minutes of arriving in Venice, I had bruised my knee, dropped my laptop computer, broken the heel off my shoe and my mother had been robbed. It certainly wasn’t what I expected from a city known as "La Serenissima".

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Venice: Arts and Crafts | Sean Thomas | Italy, Veneto, Venice

One of the best things about Venice is its world-class art. One of the worst things about Venice is that every tourist in the visible universe agrees with this.

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Art in Venice | Claire Gervat | Italy, Veneto, Venice

We drank in the view of Venice’s famous landmarks as it grew sharper and sharper – more Canaletto than Turner now – and longed for the moment to last for ever

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Fishy Business on the Rialto | Mary Lussiana | Italy, Veneto, Venice

Slanting through the arches right the way along the building was the soft September light of Venice, caressing the sea bass, stippling the salmon trout, glinting on the sardines

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Do Oar Die: The Venice Regatta | Marc Zakian | Italy, Veneto, Venice

Nobody does boats like the Venetians. Rome has Popes, Florence the Renaissance, but Venice’s story is her water and the plenitude of craft that navigate it

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