Venice's main water thoroughfare, lined with great Renaissance palaces, is a colorful and busy spectacle of gondolas and vaporetti.

San Marco is breathtakingly beautiful: hundreds of pigeons everywhere, which is also of concern due to all of the centuries-old architecture and art work (background for pigieons? could be worse both...

The most impressive secular building in Venice, this palace served as the senate house, administrative center, hall of justice, public archive and prison up until the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797.

Blending the architectural styles of East and West, Venice's magnificent basilica was consecrated in 832 AD as an ecclesiastical building to house the remains of St. Mark.

  Teatro La Fenice is the most important opera house and concert venue in Venice, with a history dating back to 1792.  It has been burnt down twice in its life, the last time in 20o3, but is now...

Here you will find some of the beautiful works from the painter Tintoretto.

Built in the first century AD, this is one of the best conserved Roman amphitheatres, whose seating area is made up of 44 levels and can hold up to 22,000 spectators.

Originally built in the mid-13th century, Santa Maria dei Frari (St. Mary of the Friars) houses many masterpieces of Venetian Renaissance art, notably Giovanni Bellini's triptych "Madonna and Child with Saints," and the "Pesaro Madonna" by Titian, who is buried in the church.

A welcome break from the mixture of traditionally hugely ornate and Byzantine style of Venetian heritage is afforded by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. If one has become overloaded by the worthy...

Immerse yourself in Venice's Age of Decadence with a visit to this lavish palace of the Venetian aristocracy Rezzonico, which houses an unsurpassed collection of eighteenth-century Venetian art.

It's no wonder that this is one of the most historic and picturesque squares in Italy: in antiquity, it served as a Roman forum; today, it contains many historic buildings, sculptures with a popular and colorful market overflowing with fresh fruits and vegetables.