Venice Features

Venice Features

• Top Reasons to Go to Venice
  

  Basilica di San Marco: Don't miss the gorgeous mosaics inside. They're worth standing on line for.... Read more

• What to Eat in Venice
  

  The catchword in Venetian restaurants is fish, often at its tastiest when it looks like nothing you've seen before. Even if you're not normally... Read more

• How to Order a Meal in Venice
  

  The standard procedures of a restaurant meal in Venice and throughout Italy are different from those in the United States (and many other places)... Read more

• Local Do's and Taboos
  

  Upon meeting and leave-taking, both friends and strangers wish each other good day or good evening (buongiorno, buonasera); ciao isn't used between... Read more

• Carnevale Festival
  

  What Mardi Gras is to New Orleans and Carnaval to Rio, Carnevale is to Venice. For the 12 days leading up to quaresima (Lent), the city is given... Read more

• Regional Wines to Try in Venice
  

  Tre Venezie regional wines (from the Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia) go far beyond the famous Amarone, and include some... Read more

• Venice Art Biennale
  

  A Venice institution, the Biennale (as the name suggests) started as an art festival held every two years, but during the century-plus of its... Read more

• Venetian Phrases
  

  Venice is one of the few Italian cities where the local dialect is still alive and well. Much of the language you will hear in Venice is not... Read more

• High Tide Tips
  

  There are two ways to get anywhere in Venice: walking and by water. Occasionally you walk through water, when falling barometers, southeasterly... Read more

• The Best Venice Day Tours
  

  If you want some expert guidance around Venice, you may opt for private tours, semiprivate tours, or large group tours. Any may include a boat... Read more

• Venice's Scuola Days
  

  An institution you'll inevitably encounter from Venice's glory days is the scuola. These weren't schools, as the word today translates, but important... Read more

• Let's Get Lost
  

  Getting around Venice presents some unusual problems: the city's layout has few straight lines; house numbering seems nonsensical; and the six... Read more

• Great Venice Souvenirs: Glass
  

  Perhaps it's a matter of character that Venice, a city whose beauty depends so much upon the effects of shimmering, reflected light, also developed... Read more

• Great Venice Souvenirs: Lace
  

  The craft of weaving brocades, damasks, and velvets is still very much alive in Venice, with top manufacturers catering to royal courts, theaters... Read more

• Great Venice Souvenirs: Masks
  

  Venetian mask making has experienced a rebirth. In the time of the Republic, the mask trade was vibrant—Venetians used masks all year long... Read more