• Celebrating La Festa di San Rocco

    Celebrating La Festa di San Rocco

    Another mid-summer feast, celebrated on 16 August, and it has a special history: This red baldachin called TENDON DEL DOGE has been waiting for the past couple of days for today’s FESTA DI SAN ROCCO: So yes, summer feasts in #Venice continue throughout August and well into September, and La Festa di San Rocco comes…

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  • The long story of cats in Venice

    The long story of cats in Venice

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    40 tips to explore Venice in 2022

    40 tips to explore Venice in 2022

    What’s changing and what’s new in Venice in 2022? We’ve collected 40 resources and tips for you to re-connect with our city in 2022. This post is for all history, art, gourmet food, and Lagoon lovers. Rediscovering Venice online Piazza San Marco – 1: Always good to start with Saint Mark’s square .. did you…

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    Camelias and Carnival: Our guide to Carnival in Venice

    Camelias and Carnival: Our guide to Carnival in Venice

    In Venice, spring begins when the yellow-flowering calycanthus give way to the first white-pinkish almond blossoms, light purple crocuses, and .. mimosa smelling of vanilla and lemon! Usually; this happens in early February when all of a sudden, we can detect the first blossoms on the mimosa trees in Venice, appearing over night. Such as…

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    It’s world pasta day – this is our favorite from Venice

    It’s world pasta day – this is our favorite from Venice

    25 October is world pasta day – time to introduce our “family favorite”: You can taste this dish in a little restaurant tucked into a magically green palace garden looking like a fairy tale! It’s called Al Giardinetto da Severino. Just two corners from my home in Venice, it’s located on Salizzada Zorzi, inside the…

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  • Returning to Venice

    Returning to Venice

    Saturday afternoon in Venice. At the Arsenale, people are invited inside, participating in guided walks and listening to stories about the oldest shipyard in Europe. Fashion shows are taking place, also in the Piazzetta, just in front of the Doge’s Palace. At the Rialto Market, about 250 people are learning how to use spices in…

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    The Venetian rose itinerary

    The Venetian rose itinerary

    By mid-May, roses bloom all over Venice, and the good news is that la stagione delle rose – rose season reaches fairly into June! As you know, Venice has a very special relationship with roses, not only with regard to the boccolo tradition (roses given on 25 March to women). But are there certain roses, and colors…

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  • Can slow tourism work in Venice?

    Can slow tourism work in Venice?

    Could traveling with a small group and a travel agency acting as host be the solution for visiting historical cities? Could this be a glimpse into the future of traveling, a sustainable way of discovering cities, whom so many people think they know, but only scrape the surface? In my opinion, if you’re coming to…

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  • Discover the Live in Venice Week 2021

    Discover the Live in Venice Week 2021

    Exactly a year ago in May 2020, we published an article on “how Venice was doing” after going through the first three months of the pandemic. We wrote about the neighborhoods, where residents were planning a new start for their city, and that in some ways, it would have to be a complete relaunch: Venice…

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