About Venice

For a city of waterways, walking is the best way to see this astonishing ancient labyrinth of more than 100 islands, linked by over 400 bridges, and all within 7km by 4km. You may do miles of alleys and cross up and down over canal bridges for an hour or more - and suddenly find yourself back in the place you first started, but it is the way to go. This is no ordinary built environment - it looks like it grew there, like a glorious forest. Venice is art, and art is Venice - everywhere, in the architecture, churches, galleries, museums, squares, alleys and gardens. It is incurably romantic and a place for lovers and couples to discover its treasures together - such as how gondolas are made in the ‘squeri’ of Venice, traditional boatyards with slipways.