Venice, Italy

Alibi: A Novel
From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes a riveting tale of love, revenge, and murder set in postwar Venice.

The Unforgettable New Year’s Eve in Venice
Venice is a city with a striking charm at any time of year. Its buildings, its canals and bridges make you believe that time has stopped, in this magical and surreal atmosphere.

The Secrets and Mysteries of Venice
Venice is certainly a mysterious and enchanting city, so different form every other places in the world. There are a lot of enigmas and mysteries in this city, and visitors and inhabitants are always fascinated by them.

The Festival of the Cinema, a not to Miss Event of the Venetian Summer
One of the absolutely not-to-miss events of Venice is certainly the Festival of the Cinema. Already arrived at its 66th edition, it has not lost even a bit of its charm and its red carpet every year sees parade the best international and national actors.

The Venetian Lagoon and its Islands
Not just Venice, the Venetian Lagoon can offer a lot of beauties to admire, reachable in a short time and in which walking and admiring the splendors of the past is pleasant and relaxing.

Summer Events in Venice
There are always more tourists that choose Venice as destination for their vacations. Here a small guide of major events held in Venice during this summer.

The Venice Biennale
One Venice’s most well-known exhibition is the famous Venice Biennale. The Venice Biennale has been for over a century one of the world’s most prestigious cultural institutions.

Finding Affordable Real Estate in Venice, Italy
An Italian property expert offers advice on where to look for affordable property in Venice, Italy. This article also covers nearby areas that also represent excellent investment value.

Literary and Artistic Event in Venice
Venice and its territory can boast numerous artistic and literary events along all year, offering to the tourists an always wide and varied offer of cultural proposals, that can fit every taste.

Venice: The Magic of a Wonderful Location
Venice, the magic city, the city built on the water, the city in which rules and paces of normal modern life don’t apply.

Venice Tries to Turn the Tide
Venice is a wonderful destination for a romantic weekend break. But could this wonderful city slowly disappear under the waves?

Venice Hotels - Comfortable Stay in Small City
Venice hotels provide warm and comfortable accommodation to its tourists. The hotel staff is always attentive in their service towards clients. One can find cheap hotels in Venice all around the city.

Venice Denies 'passageway of Light' Any Glitter
Opening of bridge built by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava is canceled

Venice, the Enchanted City by the Shining Glass
Venice, capital of the Veneto region, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, imposes itself on the Venetian lagoon as that magical and special city that you remember for its particularity and splendor.

Italy: London Schoolgirl in Fall From Venice Hotel
15-year-old on school choir trip plummets 30ft from window but has lucky escape

Discovering Venice, Italy!
Luckily for each individual, there is something for everyone in Venice. Strolls down by the water, entertainment and live music on the streets, fine wining and dining at countless locations, romantic sunsets, wild clubs and bars—there is really no limit to finding things to do. A vacation in Venice will definitely be something that can be cherished for years.

Venice Urges Tourists to Drink From Water Fountains
Visitors are to be handed an empty plastic bottle and a map locating 122 places they can fill up

Venice - Obliged Destination for Tourism In Italy
Italy offers itself as a country of important and various tourist destinations; many resorts are envied to Italy and these offer to visitors the opportunity to discover the history of this country between monuments and architecture beauties as well as beautiful landscapes and natural wealth.

Venice Top Ten Free Sights
Some 118 islands make up this hopelessly romantic Italian travel Mecca and there are plenty of attractions that price-wise are beyond the majority of backpackers in their hostels in Venice. That said there are also a great many fantastic sights visitors can go and see for free.

Man Who Disappeared on Venice Trip Found Dead
The body of a 23-year-old man who disappeared in Venice during a Valentine's trip with his girlfriend has been found

Venice Hotels:Cheap Hotel in Venice
The city of Venice in Italy is deemed as among the loveliest and most romantic holiday spot. Almost a lagoon five hundred years ago… Venice city today boasts of attracting millions of visitors to its land.

Venice, always in the hearts of tourists from all over the world.
Venice, capital of the Veneto region, is one of the most beautiful and picturesque Italian city, and coveted tourist destination among the most important at the global level, is considered a strategic connection with the Middle East and its history is thousands of years.

How Rupert Everett Became the Hero of Venice's Bathing Classes
The actor Rupert Everett was yesterday hailed as the champion of Italy's sun-worshippers and swimmers after taking on Venice city council over free access to the sea.

Sophie Calle
Interview: When a boyfriend dumped her by email, French artist Sophie Calle asked 100 women to read it - and became the star of the Venice Biennale, reports Angelique Chrisafis.

Sharon Stone Starts Run for White House at Venice Biennale
In one of the most talked-about works of the Biennale, the Italian video installation artist Francesco Vezzoli has created two 2008 White House campaigns, Democrazy.

French Tycoon Wins Battle for Venice's Modern Art Gem
A battle for the chance to use the world's most famous architects to turn the most prestigious site in the most beautiful city of Europe into one of the continent's most high-profile museums of contemporary art.

Woman Causes Storm on Venice's Grand Canal
A German woman has made waves on the waterways of Venice after becoming the first female - and first foreign - gondolier.

Travel in Italy: Great Free Travel Guide of Venice by Flashbooking cheap booking on-line
Flashbooking is a growing youth hostels and hotels directory in Venice (Italy) specializing in budget accommodation for independent travellers, students, backpackers, families and all the ones that travel on a pocket.

Tintoretto's First Show for 70 Years
Tintoretto, the 16th-century Italian painter whose huge masterpieces adorn many of Venice's churches and palaces, is having his first major solo exhibition for 70 years.

Inspired and Incomprehensible, a Russian Doll of a Film
Venice film festival: The best way to enjoy David Lynch's new film is to succumb to its warped, dream-like logic, says Geoffrey Macnab.

Spike Lee's Sonorous, Heartrending Reflection on an American Tragedy
Spike Lee's history of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans commanded everyone's attention at the Venice film festival - and even opened a few tear ducts, writes Peter Bradshaw.

Femme Fatale Johansson Thrills Festival
Brian de Palma's noir movie The Black Dahlia premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim yesterday as its 21-year-old star, Scarlett Johansson, paraded down the red carpet.

Population Decline Set to Turn Venice Into Italy's Disneyland
Venice is on course to become a city virtually without residents within the next 30 years, turning it into a sort of Disneyland - teeming with holidaymakers but devoid of inhabitants.

Venice Canals Threatened By Algae
First came the counterfeit designer handbags. Then, the cheap Chinese textiles that pose a threat to livelihoods throughout the region round Venice.

'Send for Disney' to Save Venice
The drowning city can only survive if it is run like a theme park, says a leading UK economist.

Venice for Sale to Highest Bidder
£100m palazzo auctions greeted with outrage. Venice is selling 13 historic palaces and villas in some of the most sought-after locations on...

Venice, Italy – The Bird Lady
You have few room options if you arrive in Venice in the middle of the night during summer. In fact, you might get stuck staying with the bird lady.

Venice Diary By Charlotte Higgins
Last month the film world had its tribal gathering at Cannes. This time it's the international art world's turn to congregate for its biggest shindig: the Venice Biennale.

Dearth in Venice
The Biennale has no place in the city of Titian's greatest works, where artists invite comparison with genius. Jonathan Jones

Blanchett Brings Hollywood Glitz to Venice Biennale
At the Venice Biennale, nations vie with one another to flaunt the best and most moment-defining works they can muster.

Ravaged 'venice of the East' Seeks to Regain Status As Tourist Magnet
Basra declared itself open to foreign visitors this week but instructed them to be vigilant, dress like locals and hire armed escorts.

Striking Gondoliers Dent Romantic Hopes
It should have been the most romantic weekend of the year, but star-crossed lovers hoping for a romantic glide down the canals of Venice could not hire a gondola for love or money.

Don't Bet on 53, Italians Told
The Italian government has urged punters to exercise restraint in state lotteries after a series of family tragedies linked to obsessive betting on the number 53 in the Venice draw.

Venice Plans to Ban Rush Hour Serenaders
Venetians may no longer wake up to the dulcet tones of 'just one cornetto' as the mayor of Venice plans to ban serenaders on gondolas during the morning rush hour in an effort to stop collisions on increasingly congested waterways.

Venice Film Festival Shows the Strain
The quality of mercy, as Portia observes in the Merchant of Venice, is not strain'd - but much of this year's Venice film festival has become extremely strain'd. Shows have started hours late, cinemas have been overbooked and anti-globalisation protesters and local film-makers have...

Italian B-movie Maestros Get Tarantino Treatment
Gore and erotica at the alternative Venice film festival. Steven Spielberg, John Travolta and Tom Cruise made headlines when the 61st Venice festival opened on Wednesday but on nearby screens a series of obscure Italian films has been drawing almost as much attention.

Hollywood Raids Venice Festival
Politics takes the main stage with complaints that European events are in thrall to blockbusters at the expense of struggling independents.

Gondoliers row into action to unravel Venice traffic tangle
John Hooper reports on growing anger over the dangers of jam-packed canals. Anyone who has ever visited Venice will know the problem: the Grand Canal is horrendously, perilously overcrowded.

Eccentric Held After Hammer Attacks on Treasures of Venice
A man is in custody after a string of hammer attacks on priceless historic religious statues in Venice. Antonio Benacchio, 38, an engineer living in the city, was detained when a priest became suspicious of his behaviour in a church on Monday. Because of his eccentric gestures, Mr...

Access Row Over Venice Bridge
Plans put forward by a leading Spanish architect for a state-of-the-art footbridge in Venice have come under attack for ignoring access for the disabled. Santiago Calatrava has designed an elegant, steel and glass structure that will arch across Venice's main waterway, the Grand Canal....

Venice's La Fenice Opera House is Restored to Its Former Glory
After almost eight years since a fire burnt it to the ground, Venice's La Fenice opera house has been lovingly restored to its former glory.

Venice Canals to Channel £42m Cable Link
Jostling for space among the vaporetti water buses and motor launches, the gondoliers of Venice face a new obstacle - canal-bottom cable congestion. The Milan broadband provider e.Biscom will today announce a business plan in which €60m (£42m) has been set aside over three years...

Ovation for Emma Thompson as low-budget art wins over hype in Venice
The 60th Venice festival, the only major film festival with two fully fledged competitions judged by separate international juries, ended with two surprises.

Tragic twist denies young star triumph in Venice
As a tragic ending it is by far the most heartbreaking witnessed in the 60 years of the Venice Film Festival. The young Russian star of The Return, the favourite to lift the Golden Lion award tomorrow, drowned in an accident with haunting echoes of the film itself.

Clooney 'weds' his Venice stalker
Women of the world weep - George Clooney yesterday "married" his stalker in a shotgun ceremony at the Venice Film Festival. The lucky lady is Victoria Cabello, who previously proposed to the actor dressed as a pig so he wouldn't have to choose between her and his beloved pet boar, Max.

Tears as Emma Thompson comeback bombs
Movie about Argentine terror is jeered at Venice film festival. Emma Thompson came out fighting yesterday after her emotional comeback film, Imagining Argentina, was booed and jeered at the Venice film festival.

Heat and dust
The 60th Venice film festival - the oldest film festival in the world, as its organisers love to remind us - has begun with the traditional through-the-roof temperatures and gusty storms.

Censors cast shadow over Venice
A veil of censorship is hanging over the Venice film festival, with a series of contentious new films facing bans, savage cuts and a looming threat that their makers may be locked up when they return home.

Five Obstructions Humiliate Perfect Human
Just when you thought he couldn't get any more cruel, the maverick director Lars Von Trier has shocked the Venice film festival by subjecting one of the greats of Danish cinema to a series of cringe-inducing humiliations. His documentary, Five Obstructions, in which he challenges Jorgen...

Director, 14, 'too young' to go to her own premiere
She was old enough to go to Kabul, and shoot a film there, but 14-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf was not old enough to see it open Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival.

Woody Attacks America's Shrink Culture
Venice critics hail Allen's return to form | Tarantino's new film misses festival deadline | Intolerable cruelty from the Coen brothers

Berlusconi Accused of Rigging Approval for Venice Motorway
Silvio Berlusconi's government has been accused of rigging a key committee to enable a motorway to be built through a Unesco-nominated world heritage site. The charity Save Europe's Heritage said in a statement issued from London that the Rome government had removed officials who opposed...

Hard-up Police Have to Hitch Ride
Tourists travelling on the ferry to St Mark's Square in Venice recently may have noticed that some fellow passengers were particularly impatient.

Artist's bold display of black power takes Venice by storm
The painter Chris Ofili provided the final, telling rebuff to the old racist chant "that there ain't no black in the union jack" yesterday with a ravishing show at the Venice Bienniale in the colours identified with black power.

Where avant-garde meets super-rich
The Venice Biennale is to the art world what the Olympics are to sport - minus the doping scandals - but with all the concomitant baggage of big-money, national pride and somewhere in the background, the whiff and whisper of corruption.

Venice Turns to Moses to Halt Floods
£2.4bn underwater barrier is aimed at saving 'pride of Italy'. Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, gave his blessing yesterday to the construction of a multi-billion pound underwater project designed to hold back the sea and help to rescue Venice from sinking.

Dead and buried, but not forgotten by followers
Pim Fortuyn's grand marble tomb in a small Italian village, 25 miles north of Venice, has become a place of pilgrimage for his followers. Dutch travel agents rushed to organise special Fortuyn trips there.

Romantic Deneuve dazzles Venice
France's leading lady, Catherine Deneuve, looks happy and relaxed at the Venice Film Festival where her film Au plus pres du paradis is vying for the Golden Lion award.

Flooded, Stinking and Sinking: Venice Calls in British Experts to Rescue City
Thames-style barrier and floating marshes are planned.

Venice Festival Sinks Into Farce
The Venice Film Festival, part of the Biennale art exhibition, may be five months away but it is already threatening to degenerate into a public relations calamity for a man in urgent need of a showcase, Silvio Berlusconi.