Venice travel guides & articles
All 17 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Venice — newest first.
Venice Learns to Live With Water That Won't Stay Out
In Venice, high water is routine, not disaster — a walk through the cafés, museums and workshops that show how the city copes, from the MOSE barrier to the pontoon bridge it lays across the Grand Canal every November.
Venice's Literary Underbelly and Bookshops
Beyond the gondola-shelf photo op: the bookshops, cafes and one silent cemetery island where Venice's writers actually lived, drank and are buried.
The Artisans Who Keep Venice Afloat: Gondola Makers, Glass Masters, and the City's Vanishing Crafts
The boatyards, furnaces and loom rooms where Venice is still made by hand — and the vanishing craftspeople behind them.
Six O'Clock in Venice: The City's Real Dinner Table Is a Bar
Skip the tired canal-side restaurant and eat the way Venetians do — standing at a bacaro with a €3 cicchetto and a €2.50 glass of wine in hand.
First Light in Venice: The Hour the City Keeps for Itself
A calm, stop-by-stop walk through the quiet hour between the first vaporetto and the ten o'clock crowds — with the price, timing and walking distance for every stop.
Beyond the Grand Canal: A Local's Map of Venice's Hidden Waterways and Quiet Courtyards
A calm, walkable route through Venice's back canals, working boatyards and vine-shaded courtyards — with the times, prices and quiet alternatives you actually need to plan the days.
Skip-the-Line Tours of Venice's Top Landmarks
An ordered, honest 2026 route through Venice's landmark tours — with the price, the walk between each stop, and the quieter door wherever one exists.
Murano, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
Ten minutes from Fondamente Nove sits a working glass island that empties at half past four — here is how to time it, eat on it, and stay the night.
Lido, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
Fifteen minutes across the lagoon from San Marco, Venice's only island with roads, bikes and beaches — sequenced hour by hour, with what everything costs and how far you'll walk.
Giudecca, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
Four minutes across the water from Zattere is the one part of Venice that still closes at ten — here is how to stay, eat and drink on Giudecca in 2026, stop by stop.
Santa Croce, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
The sestiere most visitors drag a suitcase through without looking up — a working campo, three museums ten minutes apart, and bacari where a glass still costs about a euro.
Castello, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
A west-to-east walk through Venice's quietest big sestiere — Carpaccio in the room he painted it for, cicchetti on Via Garibaldi, and honest advice on which doors a group will actually fit through.
San Polo, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
A stop-by-stop guide to Venice's smallest sestiere — the Rialto bacari in the order you should drink them, fifty Tintorettos at the quiet end, and honest notes on which addresses take a group.
Dorsoduro, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
A sequenced day through Venice's quietest sestiere — the galleries, the standing lunches and the evening squares, with the times, prices and walking distance between every stop.
Cannaregio, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
The sestiere north of the Grand Canal, walked in order — where to drink standing up, which church is empty, and what actually works for a group of eight.
San Marco, Venice: the neighbourhood guide
A calm, sequenced walk through Venice's most-trodden sestiere in 2026 — what to book, what it costs, how far apart everything is, and the quieter alternative to every queue.
The best gondola rides in Venice
Where to board, what it really costs in 2026, which stazi suit groups and which suit couples — and the €2 gondola crossing most visitors walk straight past.