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Venice is made up of 117 small islands and has 150 canals throughout the city, which makes it a beautiful and truly unique place to visit. With many restaurants and hotels located along the banks of the canals the panoramic views are breathtaking. Get hopelessly lost along the streets as you navigate through the back streets of Venice admiring the architecture and local culture.

Enjoy resort style Venice hotels with gorgeous rooftop terraces overlooking the canals and restaurants that serve some of the most exquisite meals and serve top shelf wines. Discover the excitement that hovers over St. Mark's Square or relax with spa treatments and aromatherapy provided by some of the luxury Venice hotels. Venice is a romantic city that blends luxury, tradition and contemporary design perfectly.

Blogs on Venice such as the Living Venice Blog serve as a great resource for those looking to plan a trip to Italy. Learn about the best restaurants, great hotel deals and the top places to see while staying in Venice using a Venice travel guide and itinerary planner.

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  • Death in Venice


    World of Royalty BlogAuthority Authority: 130
    City stages its own funeral. (With video)
    3 hours ago
  • Medical Supply Donations for the Venice Skate Park?


    Yo! Venice!Authority Authority: 500
    Any Venetians happen to work for a medical supplies company that would like to donate cold compresses, gauze, band aids and other such expendable medical supplies to the skate park? The helpful VSA folk at the Venice Skate Park that help fix up skinned knees and elbows as a free service could really use some ...
    3 hours ago
  • Watch A Musical Journey: Italy - Ravenna, Venice, Faenza Movie Trailer Online


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    No description available (53 hr. ).
    3 hours ago
  • Remaining Venetians Stage Mock Funeral for the City


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    Frustrated residents carried an empty coffin to the mayor’s office this weekend, in a mock funeral procession designed to highlight the city’s dwindling full-time population. Venetian officials responded by calling the funeral stunt “premature”—not the most forceful rebuttal I’ve ever heard, and none too ...
    4 hours ago
  • Broad Eyes Santa Monica, Mystery City for Museum


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    The Los Angeles Times reports that Eli Broad, whod originally entertained dropping down his new art museum in Beverly Hills, is also considering Santa Monica, as well as a third unnamed city, as the site for his museum. And while everyone may know what cities are involved, the architect behind the project remains ...
    4 hours ago
  • Venice Skate Park Picture of the Week


    Yo! Venice!Authority Authority: 500
    Shane Borland 11-14-09 Picture by Ray Rae Goldman . Support the VSA here . Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts
    4 hours ago
  • Nicknames like ‘Fat’, ‘Mad’, ‘Peasant’ get legal stamp in Italian town!


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    London, November 16 (ANI): People at a small Italian town have a reason to cheer, as they have won a legal battle to use their nicknames, including “Fat”, “Mad” and “Peasant”, on all official documents.The residents of Chioggia near Venice have been using nicknames for more than 200 years in order to ...
    14 hours ago
  • Venice "funeral" takes place


    ITALY MagazineAuthority Authority: 477
    The “funeral” for the city of Venice , which we wrote about on November 9th - "Funeral" to be held for Venice - took place on Saturday.
    14 hours ago
  • G2 Gallery: Emerging II / Southwest Gallery Showing


    Yo! Venice!Authority Authority: 500
    The G2 Gallery unveiled two new exhibits last night: “Emerging Artists ll” and “Southwest”. “Emerging Artists ll” features the photography of Mike Caroff, Marc Levine and Kristen Westlake. “Southwest” features the photography of Kate Dennis, Sandra Lee, David Pettit and Lynne Pomeranz. The exhibits ...
    17 hours ago
  • Fewer and fewer call Venice home, but its not dead yet


    eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry NewsAuthority Authority: 541
    The city of Venice, Italy, with its famous waterways and beautiful buildings is losing official residents at a rapid rate causing some people to hold a mock funeral on Saturday. read more
    22 hours ago
  • Shayne Lamas Arrested For DUI Anti DUI Silicone Wristbands


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    The daughter of Lorenzo Lamas and star of Leave It to Lamas was arrested on suspicion of DUI charges on Saturday night in Venice, but broke the news to the media herself! Lamas released the following statement to E! News (AKA the cable network her reality show airs on): Early Saturday morning, after consuming one ...
    1 day ago
  • Carlo NAYA (1816-1882) Venise, vers 1875


    Les cahiers d'Alain TruongAuthority Authority: 153
    Carlo NAYA (1816-1882) Venise, vers 1875 Ensemble de 8 épreuves dépoque sur papier albuminé montées sur bristol. Titres et références en bas dans les images. Format moyen : 35 x 27 cm. Vues du Canale Grande, Hercole e Lica, Chiesa della Madonna della Salute, Ponte di Rialto… Estimation : 800 / 1 200 € ...
    1 day ago
  • Mock Funeral for Venice Dramatizes Flight of Residents From City’s Heart


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    A fake coffin was floated through Venice on Saturday and then carried through the streets. An electronic counter displayed the population of the citys center, down from 108,300 residents in 1971.
    2 days ago
  • 6.5 Million Dollar Venice Canal Crash Pad


    Yo! Venice!Authority Authority: 500
    The compound that is comprised of 414, 416 and 420 Carroll Canal has come on the market at 6.5 million dollars and can be peeped at CJ Cole of Venice Beach Living’s website here . To put things in perspective, in 1891 property developers Abbot Kinney and Francis Ryan paid around $175,000 for all of the marsh land ...
    2 days ago
  • Few call Venice home, but it’s not history, either (AP)


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    AP – A dozen gondolas snaked down the Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral procession bemoaning Venice’s approach to the dreaded status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000. Read more: (AP)"> (AP)">Few call Venice home, but it’s not history, either (AP)
    2 days ago
  • Venice hosts its own funeral


    GadlingAuthority Authority: 690
    Filed under: Festivals and Events , Europe , Italy , News Venice is dying. At least, according to Newsweek it is. The population has been shrinking so rapidly (it dropped below 60,000 this year) that the mag predicts there wont be a single full-time resident in the city by 2030. A city that sees millions of ...
    2 days ago
  • Venetians hold funeral march to mark population decline


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    Historic Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000 — a largely symbolic threshold considered by some to signal the end of the citys viability.
    2 days ago
  • The Decade List: 3-Iron (2004)


    [CinemaRatty] Latest ArticlesAuthority Authority: 165
    3-Iron – dir. Kim Ki-duk When rewatching Kim Ki-duk’s 3-Iron , I had the fear that the very stylized contrivances that made me initially like it would have worn thin. As admirable as it may have seemed to situate your films around characters that barely utter a word to one another (if at all), this action ...
    2 days ago
  • Fakir of Venice: Good Short – Yes! Terrible Feature Film


    PassionforCinema.comAuthority Authority: 143
    You have the budget to shoot in the most picturesque of locations in Venice, Ladakh and Benares, you have big name acting talent and then you have that all essential novelty in the script with a title on the front page that reads “Fakir of Venice”. Then you go about shooting, but fail to capitalize on the acting ...
    2 days ago
  • When Falls the Coliseum


    Ennyman's TerritoryAuthority Authority: 128
    A short while ago, while writing about the journals of Andre Gide, I mentioned that many critics considered Gide one of the three great luminaries of 20 th century literature, the other two being James Joyce and, todays focus, Thomas Mann. These writers may have fallen out of the pop limelight, but their works ...
    2 days ago

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