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Forget Valentine's Day, love is in the air this month. Not known to many, August is Romance Awareness Month which is the perfect time to celebrate your loved ones. Besides the quintessential elements of flowers and chocolates, how about dreaming up your next romantic vacation with your beau? If you're torn between the fairytale-like Venice and the City of Love,...

Unable to get to Italy, I spent a day recreating a Venetian mini-break in my home town. Who needs the Grand Canal when you’ve got the Ouse?

Mass tourism, rising sea levels and scorching temperatures have been plaguing the unique Italian city

As millions of Britons flock to Europe for a dose of summer sun, hoteliers and restaurateurs are rubbing their hands with glee

Valeria Ferraro/Getty ImagesMigrants departing from Tunisia are rescued by members of Open Arms, the Spanish NGO, near Lampedusa, ItalyUma Shankar MISHRA/Getty

Amsterdam is the latest city trying to ban cruise ships to solve overtourism, despite just 1 per cent of visitors arriving that way

An Italian café at Lake Como has defended its hospitality charge that has divided Italy.

The videos of a far-right councilwoman who identifies pickpockets in Venice have become a hit on social media, and tourists stop her in the street to thank her for her warnings. The citizen group she belongs to has been denounced in the past for attacks on foreigners

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Does anyone love Venice in summer? Clots of teenagers clog Rialto Bridge, there’s a snaking gondola jam on the narrow canal next to the Doge’s Palace and, among