Venice, Italy Travel News

The history of Venice is the dominance of the glass making industry.The island of Murano in Italy is where Venetian Glass is best known for its special qualities of transparency along with its unique elegant shapes.

Having just returned from Venice, with its literal acres of art, crowded parties, Arsenale hikes, and tourists wielding umbrellas through the rain, one exhibition left me gratefully awed.

Ekaterina Kuzmina / Vedomosti Tourists are taking advantage of cheap commuter boat prices as a daily sightseeing option, leaving local commuters stranded.

About 75 miles southwest of Shanghai is a beautifully restored, 1300-year-old "water-town" called Wuzhen where Chinese tourists flock each year - "the Venice of the East," according to its PR.

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Nothing quite captured the absurdity that is the vernissage of La Biennale better than Ragnar Kjartansson's fishing boat, the S. S. Hangover, floating through a barrel-vaulted and colonnaded boat parking structure carrying six horn players performing British composer Gavin Bryars's "White's SS" as Tilda Swinton looked on elegantly from a grassy ... (more)

South Africans made their presence royally known at the Venice Biennale - behind the scenes, on the scenes and in a new permanent pavillion.

THE world's biggest art festival, the Venice Biennale, has never been just about art.

There are many ways to experience Venice and its surrounding towns, but none as unique as plying the Po River on a river cruise.

TOURISTS will find themselves living la dolce vita on the cruise ship Costa Atlantica, offering an around-the-world cruise for 83 days.

This was taken shortly before my previous post, sitting at the other end of Piazza San Marco, for a wider view.

From a splash of molten lead to a telephone call, the Fondazione Prada has recreated an extraordinary 1969 exhibition down to the last detail - and captured Adrian Searle's heart Rope trick ... works by Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Barry Flanagan and Bruce Nauman from When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013'. Photograph: Siegfried Kuhn ... (more)

Just a short walk from bustling Piazza San Marco, the little-known neighborhood of Castello Orientale - with its tourist-free streets and old-fashioned way of life - feels worlds away.

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The group gathered in Milan for a guided tour before heading to Lake Como in the Alps for four days of fun, relaxation, shopping, way too much gelato consumption, and sightseeing.

Linda Herrick travels to the Venice Biennale and finds the light, and shade, in the work of a New Zealander.

While many celebrities are cruising around the Mediterranean on their super yachts, some stars are content to travel in more traditional ways.

Iraq pavilion challenges 'rockets and bombs' view of country to showcase an art world painstakingly emerging from shadow of Saddam and invasion Jamal Penjweny's series of photographs, Saddam Is Here, shows ordinary Iraqis holding Saddam masks over their own faces.

Venice's gondolas are expensive. Buy a three-day pass for the far more affordable vaporetto - canal boat-buses. Photo / Thinkstock All the old English couple probably wanted was to be out of the rain, but when you choose a restaurant as your refuge you need to order something.