A fishing island in the Venetian lagoon, famous for its brightly painted houses, in every colour, lining the canals, and for lace-making. The Lace Museum shows the delicate needle lace made here for centuries.
Vaporetto line 12 from Fondamente Nove takes about 45 minutes, stopping at Murano, the glass-making island, on the way. Try the local butter biscuits (bussolai), and fish risotto in a canal-side restaurant. The nearby island of Torcello has the oldest church in the lagoon.
The Gothic palace of the Doges, the rulers of the Venetian Republic for nearly a thousand years, beside St Mark's Basilica.
St Mark's Basilica, the cathedral of Venice, glitters inside with more than 8,000 square metres of gold mosaics.
The best way to see Venice's main waterway is from vaporetto line 1, the slow water bus that stops at every landing between Piazzale Roma and the rai…
A small, romantic hotel in an old Venetian palazzo in the San Marco district, close to the Grand Canal.
A large family camping village run by Club del Sole on a small headland between the Adriatic Sea and the lagoons of the Valli di Comacchio, inside th…
A Roman amphitheatre from the 1st century AD, in remarkably good condition, in Verona's Piazza Bra.
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