Venice
Venice is an extraordinarily beautiful city. Venice represents an urban landscape so rich in its lavishness that it can be overwhelming. Venice represents an urban landscape so rich in its lavishness that it can be overwhelming. It seems as if at each step you will encounter some aspect of the city worth admiring.
Why Venice
With water, water everywhere, Venice, Italy, is a small and entrancing city, said to have more great art and architecture per square inch than any other place in the world. Venice has grown into a city of 117 painstakingly constructed islands, connected by some 150 canals and 400 bridges. Its roads being canals of water it has no cars or lorries; its stone built sidewalks are elegant and historic. Venice boasts luxurious shopping, an elegant fish-rich local cuisine and centuries of experience in giving pleasure to its numerous visitors. It is acclaimed by many as the "Queen of the Adriatic", sophisticated and stylish, romantic and mysterious - in short, the most beautiful city in the world.
Venice is a unique blend of water, art and romance located four kilometers from terra firma and two kilometers from the Adriatic Sea. It is a treasure from the artistic and architectural point of view. The city in a lagoon on an exceptional atmosphere during the phenomenon of "high water," when the high tide exceeds the level of dry land and floods the main streets and piazzas of Venice. For these reasons, Venice is one of the cities most visited by tourists from around the world. Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance are the principal reference points for the artistic development of Venice.
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