Welcome to About Venice
Dear Visitor, welcome to aboutvenice.org! This is a non-profit website about Venice and the main cities of Veneto. Our purpose is to give you a historical, cultural and practical information, so you have a little more knowledge about this wonderful city.
We selected the most important and interesting information about the history, the art, and monuments of Venice; therefore we made also more specific examinations concerning significant paintings such as the Last Supper by Tintoretto. Beyond dealing with the history and art, we also collected for you special and interesting information like "events", "curiosities", "famous people" of Venice. Here you can find also something more frivolous but no less interesting than iys history or art.We also added some helpful links like emergency addresses, consulates, internet points, public transports and much more for your comfortable staying in Venice.
In this website you will also find access to other sites for planning your holidays. All the sites and sources that helped us improve our service have been mentioned in the apposite link "thanks to."
Together with aboutflorence.com, aboutsiena.com, aboutmilan.com, aboutroma.com , www.aboutmugello.com, aboutvenice.org our goal is to let you know a little bit more about Italy as our webservices are always up-to-date. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions on how to improve this site, please contact us at info@aboutvenice.org.
Have a nice journey and enjoy your staying with www.aboutvenice.org
" (...) In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more;
And silent runs the songless gondolier;
Her palaces are crimbling to the shore;
And music meets not always the ear;
Those days are gone - but beauty still is here."
With these words Byron describes the melancholic decay of the sparkling past of Venice, but he also finishes the frase that beauty still remains in this timeless city.
It has in fact precious artistic and architectural works that still attract thousands of people every year without mentioning the importance of the events like Carnival, "Biennale" and "Festival of cinema".
Besides Venice, you can also visit its surroundings like Chioggia, the picturesque old city centre of Padua and Treviso, the city of Vicenza.
The humid climate it's probably the only imperfection we can find to Venice, but that would be otherwise faultless.
During a stay in Venice first of all you can't forget to visit St. Mark's Square and its Basilica, Doge's Palace, Rialto Bridge, Ponte dei Sospiri, Accademy galleries, Ca' d'Oro.
