Trip to Venice, Florence

The Palace, like its accompanying basilica, was built large to showcase Venice’s indomitabl...

So there’s two deals happening here: one is a dedication to the evergreen Tintoretto, and t...

St. Mark’s Square, St. Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace all grew up togeth...

The name ‘Church of Gold’ is well deserved. This magnificent Byzantine building is th...

The American heiress Peggy Guggenheim made collecting tasteful art and hosting seasonal exhibitio...

Nearly four kilometres long, this canal is the lifeline of Venice’s water traffic (of priva...

So a name like that has GOT to have a story behind it, right? It does. The view convicts had thro...

Venice’s state as a floating city leads to the creation of some unique neighbourhoods. On s...

Four islands linked together by bridges comprise what may be Venice’s most charming corner....

Soaring over the Grand Canal, and connecting San Polo and San Marco, the Rialto Bridge is Venice&...

A 11km long sandbar across the lagoon with captured European imagination in the 1850s… the...

This museum palace hosts Italy’s largest single collection of Gothic and Renaissance sculpt...

If you walk into this square and witness a strange fusion of old and new justaposed awkwardly on ...

The Uffizi Gallery is a major historical center in Florence, Italy. It is known as one of the mos...

The Oltrarnois an architectural landmark of Florence. The name means “Beyond Arno”, r...

Designed by architect Giuseppe Pogg on a hill overlooking the historic centre of Florence, this s...

Three arcades, one of which is the church from which the square derives its name, enclose this be...

It would not be an exaggeration to call this gallery one of the most important in world art histo...

This medieval stone bridge, closed and segmented, soars over River Arno, and is famous for the sh...

The Ponte Santa Trìnita (Italian for Holy Trinity Bridge, named for the old temple in the ...