The city’s outer islands offer beaches, shimmering ocean vistas, a fishing village and the rhythms of ancient Italian life.

When was the first landscape painting made in Europe? And the first abstraction? Art historians love these questions about ...

I end up in the headquarters because I’ve signed up for a short course in the near-forgotten Venetian ... art of sailing vela al terzo, on the uniquely designed vessels developed to navigate the ...

Wander around the Rialto market and its many fruit and vegetable stalls, and fishmonger stands. Watch out for the supersize ...

Featuring winding canals, Art Nouveau architecture and colourful tapered boats, this city has its own unique attractions to offer tourists looking for an alternative to Venice ...

Known as Glass Island, it’s the second largest in the Venetian lagoon after Venice ... The colourful chandeliers are also works of art, and I vow one day to return and find a way to transport ...

That problem has seen Po River cruising in Italy abandoned, but CroisiEurope, European Waterways and Uniworld ships still ...

The ways in which small city-states safeguard their sovereignty are sometimes similar, sometimes different. The CNA series ...