Venice does not try to compete with the vast timber-hut markets of Vienna or Salzburg, and that is precisely what makes its Christmas season so distinctive. The city leans instead on what it already h...
Venice packs an extraordinary amount of sightseeing into a very small footprint, and most first-time visitors end up paying for museum tickets, church admission, and vaporetto rides as three separate ...
Venice is unlike anywhere else a traveller is likely to go, a city built on more than a hundred small islands and threaded together by canals instead of roads. There are no cars, no motorbikes and no ...
Venice Airport: An Unlikely but Real Gateway to the Dolomites Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) is not an Alpine airport in the way Munich, Innsbruck or Geneva are, and treating it like one leads to dis...
Venice’s train stations make it one of the easiest bases in Italy for a run of genuine mainland excursions. Santa Lucia station sits right at the edge of the historic center, and its mainland tw...
Venice has two airports, and mixing them up is one of the most common trip-planning mistakes visitors make. Marco Polo Airport (VCE) is the main international gateway, sitting on the mainland beside t...
Picture a cruise ship gliding past St Mark’s Square, and you are picturing a scene that mostly no longer happens. Since 1 August 2021, Italian law has banned cruise ships over 25,000 gross tonne...
Getting Around Venice Venice is one of the few cities in the world where no cars or bicycles are allowed on its streets, so every trip through the historic centre happens either on foot or on the wate...
