Welcome to Venezia

Venice's cathedral church, a Byzantine-domed masterpiece covered in gold mosaics on Piazza San Marco.

The Gothic seat of Venetian power for a thousand years, connected to the old prisons by the Bridge of Sighs.

The oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal, lined with shops since the 16th century.

Venice's only "piazza" — the grand civic and religious square framed by the Basilica, the Campanile, and the arcaded Procuratie, and famously described by Napoleon as "the finest drawing room in Europe."

Europe's oldest continuously operating café, open under the arcades of Piazza San Marco since 1720.

Venice's centuries-old produce and fish market on the San Polo bank of the Grand Canal, next to the Rialto Bridge.

A family-run seafood trattoria hidden on a back street of San Polo, proudly free of tourist menus, pizza, and lasagne — just whatever came off the boats at Rialto that morning.

A famously chaotic Castello bookshop that keeps its stock dry in gondolas, bathtubs, and a full-size boat.

A Murano glassmaker founded in 1921, whose showroom on Fondamenta Vetrai still displays the artist collaborations that redefined 20th-century glass design.