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Sometimes we hear the first few lines of a song and our minds are suddenly transported back to a place, a memory or a dream. We put tog...
Did you know that, according to an ancient popular saying, red chicory (radicchio as it is known in Italy) seems to have been born as a...
Did you know that ‘Acqua Alta’ is an expression of Venetian dialect used by its inhabitants to describe the high tides that occur p...
Did you know that the inventor of the piano hailed from Padua? That’s true and his name was Bartolomeo Cristofori. Bartolomeo Cristof...
Did you know that on the Grand Canal of Venice, near Palazzo Ca' Vendramin Calergi there are two huge floating crushed bottles? They ar...
On 7 July 2019, Veneto and the whole of Italy toasted to the Prosecco Hills, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site! The World Heritage Commi...
Have you decided to visit Venice and included a nice gondola ride on the list of things to do? How could we blame you! Is there anythin...
Did you know that Venice is not a single large island but rather a collection of 117 small islands linked together by over 400 bridges?...