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Breaking: drunken halfwit breaks Brussels statue. Newsflash: grinning moron carves name in Colosseum. Update: Pisa plonker prosecuted for defacing tower. I coul

How do you decide where to stay in Venice? Here are five neighbourhoods and three hotels in each to suit all budgets.

Branagh improves on Agatha Christie’s work, delivering a perfect whodunit

Venice is fighting a losing battle against urinating tourists as Italy’s culture ministry rejects plans for new public lavatories near some of the city’s best-

Follow the locals, including writer Anne Hadley, an Italian resident for almost 40 years.

VENICE (AP) – Venice on Thursday again escaped the tarnish of UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites in danger, drawing a victory cheer from the mayor but scorn from environmentalists and scientists alarmed by the impact of mass tourism and climate change on the storied lagoon city. At a meeting in Saudi Arabia, member states […]

A Haunting in Venice opens not just in Venice but in the Venice of someone’s nightmare, in St. Mark’s Square, looking like it does in my dreams.

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Dozens of films have been shot in the tourist hotspot, many in some of the most frequented locations in the city including St Mark’s Square and the Rialto Bridge.

PARIS, Sept 15 — The UN’s cultural organisation said on Thursday it had stopped short of placing Venice, one of the world’s top tourist destinations, on its world heritage in...