Multiple Italian cities are planning carnival events for the days and weeks ahead. In Venice and Viareggio, the celebrations ...

For more than 500 years, people have marveled at the Torre dell’Orologio, the magnificent clock tower on Piazza San Marco in ...

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While San Marco holds Venice's architectural masterpieces ... No neighborhood in Italy can be complete without a church. In Dorsoduro, visit the octagonal Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute.

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nowhere in Italy, where calamity comes embellished with rococo gestures and embroidered in exclamation points, is there ...

Although Venice, Italy, has been called one of the most ... It was very accessible to everything," a Tripadvisor reviewer wrote. Piazza San Marco is only a five-minute walk from Hotel San Moisè.

Venice is famously a far-from-cheap destination ... the best of which is the upstairs loggia (the Museo di San Marco, €7) which affords spectacular views over the piazza. Worshippers enjoy ...