Venice

The hospitality industry hates the idea, the environmentalists love it

The image of two young men surfing on electric boards on Venice's  Grand Canal went viral  on Wednesday. Tourists and residents alike watched in amazement as the men bobbed and weaved between gondolas and vaporetti in the iconic lagoon city....

The iconic building that runs from the Torre dell'Orologio to the Museo Correr has been opened by its owner, insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali, which has funded a restoration of the 12,400 square metres of the three-storey complex. The project, led...

From March 9-29 additional “Acqua Alta” salvaged book art, under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, will be on display in the windows of Milan’s prestigious book store Libreria Bocca in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and offered for...

Venice has the largest archive of documents on the life and art of Eleonora, thanks to the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The lagoon city has recently been invaded by destructive flooding. Moved...

One of the first cities in Italy to serve coffee and bring it to prominence, for the past few centuries Venice, and in particular Piazza San Marco, has been like a magnet, drawing flocks of celebrities who wished to pay...

Vittorio Bonacini, the owner of Hotel Tintoretto, informed us journalists that, “Venice’s 274 hotels (400, if you include Mestre and other mainland environs too)--75% of which belong to AVA--are usually sold out between New Year’s Day and the Epiphany, but...

Nella California Bohemien tra il ’92 e il '98, Kampah apre una casa di produzione e design televisivo, la “Kampah Visions”, in cui dirige spot per le più importanti aziende pubblicitarie del mondo. Vince un EMMY Award per la regia...

If you ask an Italian where you eat well in Italy, many say: “everywhere but Venice, because it’s a minefield of overpriced, tourist-trap restaurants offering depressingly mediocre food”, but if you’re heading to Venice to see the Tintoretto exhibitions or visit...

Since 1717 St. Lazarus Island in the Venetian lagoon has been a foremost and deeply revered center of Armenian culture in the world. Visitors to the exhibition, “Armenia!”, on at the Met until January 13, will want to make a...