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Venice in Acqua Alta: Live From Piazza San Marco

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Venice Acqua Alta

High Water at High Noon: Keep Your Balance Acqua Alta is Italian for “High Water“, and when a big tide comes into Venice’s lagoon, that’s exactly what you get in Piazza San Marco and many pedestrian streets. Fortunately, it usually only happens from autumn to spring, and the city fathers set up a network of […]

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Restaurants in Cannaregio, Venice

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Food in Venice

Restaurants in Cannaregio, Venice It’s important to check that the restaurant at which you’re interested in eating is open! Restaurants in Venice do not all close on a Monday, rest days vary, and not all open at night. Booking is highly advisable, especially when you want an outside table. And not all restaurants (especially the […]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Cannaregio, cicchetti, dining, dinner, food, food in venice, Italy, lunch, recommendation, restaurant features, restaurant guide, reviews, Venice restaurants, wine

Restaurants in Santa Croce, Venice

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Venice Restaurants

Restaurants in Santa Croce, Venice: It’s important to check that the restaurant at which you’re interested in eating is open! Restaurants in Venice do not all close on a Monday, rest days vary, and not all open at night. Booking is highly advisable, especially when you want an outside table. And not all restaurants (especially […]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: booking, cicchetti, dining, dinner, food, Italy, lunch, recommendation, restaurant features, restaurant guide, reviews, Santa Croce, Venice, wine

Restaurants in Venice

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Restaurants in Venice

Restaurants in Venice Restaurant Location: Cannaregio Castello Dorsoduro Santa Croce San Marco San Polo Giudecca/Lido The Islands   It’s important to check that the restaurant at which you’re interested in eating is open! Restaurants in Venice do not all close on a Monday, rest days vary, and not all open at night. Booking is highly […]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: booking, Burano, Cannaregio, Castello, cicchetti, dining, dinner, Dorsoduro, food, Giudecca, islands, Italy, Lido, lunch, Murano, recommendation, restaurant features, restaurant guide, reviews, San Marco, San Polo, Santa Croce, Venice, wine

Venice and the Lagoon

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Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Venice and the Lagoon: Introduction An ever-growing range of features, links and practical information to help you plan and enjoy your visit to Venice, including guides to hotel accommodation, restaurants, bars, tourist attractions, city neighbourhoods and getting about. There’s a lot here already and we are hard at work adding the sections to complete the […]

Filed Under: Destinations Tagged With: accommodation, bars, Burano, events, food, Giudecca, guide, hotels, Italy, lagoon, Lido, maps, Murano, music, restaurants, sightseeing, Torcello, tourist information, transport, Venezia, Venice

A Brief History of Venice

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Palazzo Ducale, Venezia

A Brief History of Venice Brief History | Interesting facts | Famous people Where it started According to tradition, Venice was founded in 421 AD on April 25th, St. Mark’s Day (St. Mark is now the patron saint of Venice) when to escape the Barbarian invasions, refugees from the Veneto took shelter in the Lagoon. […]

Filed Under: Destinations Tagged With: background, Casanova, doge, history, Italy, Marco Polo, republic, serenissima, Venezia, Venice

Getting Around Venice

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Vaporetto in front of Ca D'Oro

Getting Around Venice: There are two main ways of getting around Venice: walking or using some kind of boat; you could swim, but I wouldn’t recommend it! Public Water Buses | Car Ferries | Water Taxis | Gondolas | Traghetto | Walking and also see our quick guide:How to Reach Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s […]

Filed Under: Getting around Tagged With: arriving, boat, buses, carpark, fares, getting around, gondola, Italy, lagoon, Marco Polo Airport, parking, Piazzale Roma, rail, Santa Lucia, station, transfer, transportation, Tronchetto, vaporetto, Venice, water taxi, waterbus

Street Flooding, “high water” in Piazza San Marco, Venice

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Venice Flooding

Street Flooding, "high water" in San Marco: Venice City Guide Acqua alta (High tides) We’ve all heard about Venice flooding and seen the news shots of people wading through the waters in St Mark’s Square. But actually Venice only has Acqua Alta (high water) in Autumn and Winter when some streets and squares flood, and […]

Filed Under: Getting around, Sightseeing Tagged With: acqua alta, flooding, high tide, high water, Italy, passarelle, Venice

Music in Venice: Concerts and Opera

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Verdi

Concert and Opera links to Venice orchestras and theatres A commented selection of concert and opera links to Venice orchestras and theatres. Antonio Vivaldi, who lived in Venice for many years, composed over 60 works there and the city is also the place where many famous Italian operas, especially by Verdi, had their premières: The […]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: baroque, chamber orchestra, concert, Handel, Italy, music, online booking, opera, orchestras, Teatro La Fenice, tickets, Venezia, Venice, Verdi, Vivaldi

Shopping in Venice

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Carnevale Masks shop, San Polo, Venice, Italy

Shopping in Venice Masks, Costumes Dolls Glassware Lace Paper products Fabrics Bead jewellery Lithographs Venice is famous for several local crafts that have been produced here for centuries and are hard to get elsewhere: the glassware from the island of Murano, the delicate lace from Burano (rarely found now, most of it’s from China though […]

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