Venice!

14 Places

Poveglia Plague Island

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Libreria Acqua Alta

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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The Mad Colored Houses of Burano

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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The Flooded Crypt of San Zaccaria

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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St. Mark's Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio)

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

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Lazzaretto Nuovo

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

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Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists)

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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Torcello

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

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Reliquaries of St Mark's Basilica Treasury

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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Giant Hands of Venice’s Grand Canal

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

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San Giorgio in Alga

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

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Peggy Guggenheim's Grave

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Squero di San Trovaso

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

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