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If you are planning a trip to Venice in the post-covid ‘time’ and you would like to relax in a safe open area, we could plan to visit one or more of the private, often hidden and hence secret [...]

Othello and Desdemona, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Eleonora Duse, Onassis and Maria Callas. Venice is the city of love, of romance, of lovers. Venice is also the setting for A Venetian Affair, the [...]

Dopo aver trattato molto brevemente l’origine della porcellana, dell’oro bianco del Settecento ed aver ammirato i pezzi veneziani di Vezzi e Cozzi esposti a Ca’ Rezzonico, oggi in una fredda [...]

Are you familiar with the enigmatic 16th century wooden sculptures ‘hieroglyphs’ by the relatively unknown Venetian virtuoso sculptor Francesco Pianta in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco? Have you [...]

The oldest theatres in Ancient Greece were open-air theatres built on the sides of hills consisting of orchestra (the centre), skene (backstage where actors could change, originally just a tent, [...]

Venice was built on pre-existing small sand- and mud banks. The first inhabitants travelled from one island to the other, for example over to the Doge’s palace, the former political centre, or [...]

Children and teenagers travelling to Venice are often already familiar with La Serenissima thanks to two books, Carnival at Candlelight (2006) by Mary Pope Osborne and The Thief Lord (published [...]

Venice has many prerogatives, for example it is also the seat of the oldest existing Priory of the Knights of Malta. If you think of the Middle Ages, you imagine dashing soldiers, heroic knights, [...]

When I started working as a guide many years ago I used to walk back home from San Marco square through a narrow street with several glass shops, Calle delle Rasse. I often stopped by a small [...]

L’isola di Pinocchio, Pinocchio’s Island. You are not going to find this island on a map among the over a hundred islands forming Venice, but on a bell in the district of Cannaregio. We ring the [...]