The town features tranquil lagoons, pink flamingos, and eel cuisine. This article is part of "Undiscovered Europe," a series exploring overlooked travel gems. Roughly 20 million tourists visit Venice, ...

My mom and I went to Italy to celebrate her retirement and tried to avoid the most touristy spots. We skipped popular cities like Florence and Rome and visited smaller ones, like Ravenna and Padua.

Experience Venice from the water on a breathtaking Grand Canal boat tour. A historic seaport and the capital of Italy’s Veneto region, Venice has long been known for its maritime heritage and ...

The Venice Film Festival and its parent body the Biennale have paid tribute to Italian fashion king Giorgio Armani whose death was announced on Thursday, as the 82nd edition enters its final days. “It ...

For centuries, an iconic winged lion has perched above Venice, a symbol of the “Floating City” that millions of tourists have passed under in St. Mark’s Square. But scientists now believe that this ...

After Venice shunned large cruise ships, many began to dock 100 miles east in Trieste. Residents now worry that tourists will overrun their city, too. Cruise ships dock beside the Piazza Unità ...

VENICE, Italy — No Hollywood star seems as intrinsically tied to Venice as George Clooney. Twenty-seven years ago he attended his first Venice Film Festival with the instant classic “Out of Sight”; 20 ...

A group of filmmakers penned an open letter Saturday to the Venice Film Festival urging event organizers to take a stronger pro-Palestine stance. The group, operating under the name Venice4Palestine ...

Marco Bellocchio, Alba Rohrwacher and Matteo Garrone are among hundreds of Italian cinema professionals who have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Film Festival to acknowledge the ongoing ...

It’s wedding week for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez as the engaged couple are preparing for their nuptials in Venice, Italy. But not everyone is in a celebratory mood. Protests are ramping up ahead of ...