2 Day Trip to Venice from Venice

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

As often happens when attempting to construct palaces in Europe, the builders died (1649) before ...

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

This pretty little 10th century church has been transformed into a concert hall for the cham...

Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi – bel canto extraordinaires – made this theatr...

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

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

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

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

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

Almost no famous European town is complete without it’s own dark history of Jew bullying. W...

Like the rest of the buildings in this opulent square, the clock tower had only one real purpose:...

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

They decided to build this Baroque church when the prayers against’ the plague were apparen...