Italy is by far one of the best places to visit because of its beautiful buildings and extravagant tourist attractions. There are dozens of places to visit in this outstanding country, but there are only a few that truly make the trip worthwhile. People everywhere flock to this part of Europe everyday, and all [...]

The Undrowned Child by Michelle Lovric         Cover of The Undrowned Child Venice 1899.  That is the setting for this very original fantasy children book by Michelle Lovric which I red for my “Italy In Books – Reading Challenge 2011″Venice has been used as a stage for many books before, but this [...]

  Venetian Frittelle Marathon!!! I have been writing about the Venice Carnival, its history, the masks and about typical Carnival cakes so much, that in the end I kind of worked out a massive craving for the all lot. So last Friday, with the help of an American gourmet connoisseur friend who lives in Venice, [...]

Venice must be lived, Venice must be experienced. Venice cannot be seen in a day, but unfortunately the majority of people visiting, will be here only for one day.Thankfully Martha Bakerjian choose not to and she wrote this lovely post telling us all about it! Another lovely guest post for The Best memory of Venice [...]

The posts on the Best memory of Venice keep coming in and I am very pleased that the Best memory which Robin Locker Lacey of My Mélange has taken back is that  of food (my best memories are always of our Venetian food) and of the kindness of Venetian people, which many times is overlooked by [...]

Here are some of the images of yesterday’s Acqua Alta , which rose up to 136 cm, taken by people living in Venice. The water was so high, that in Saint Marks Square they could not even put up the walkways! Look at the video as well, to see how the Venetian just cope with [...]

VENEXIA XE BELA FABRICÀ SUL MAR, CHI NON LA POL VEDAR NO LA PO STIMAR (Venice is beautiful, built on the sea, who cannot see it cannot appreciate it)   This is a very old Venetian saying and well, who has been to Venice can only agree with this! (For more Venetian sayings you can [...]

    The end of the year event. As is now tradition, the first part of the concert will be purely for orchestra. With soloists and choir, the second part is dedicated to melodrama and will end with what has now become a tradition at the Fenice New Year’s Concerts, with the choir “Va’ Pensiero” [...]

Tomorrow will be another big celebration for Venice: Santa Maria della Salute or Madonna della Salute.Unfortunately I have been extremely busy for the last two week and I really did not have time to sit down and write a porper post about this, but I feel it is right to let you know a little [...]

Carrying on with our series of posts about which memories people remember the best about Venice, this time it is the turn of Julie Gilley, another Facebook friend, who has travelled to Venice many times but who remembers one in particular: Venice—Not For The Suitcase Laden Traveler! I credit Venice as being the city that [...]

November has arrived in Venice with a vengeance: today the sky is grey, the rain is pouring and the wind is howling! And the wind is also blowing in memories of Venice from some other dear Facebook friend: Jessica from Bootsnall! Jessica has been to Venice many times but it always amazes me how she [...]

Memories of Venice keep flooding in ( just like acqua alta ):  this time it is my new Facebook friend Raleigh McDonald Hussung who tells us how she feels about the City of Dreams. Raleigh owns LovefromItalia.com, where you can find all the Italian products you can ask for! Thank you very much Raleigh for [...]

San Martino – A Venetian Celebration Here in Venice every occasion is good to celebrate with either cakes, drinks or else. This time we celebrate San Martino and we do it tomorrow, 11th November. All over the province of Venice bakeries and cakes shops sell the traditional San Martino cake, a short-crust cake covered in [...]

      Yesterday I started my new series of posts on what people remembered the best from coming to Venice. This is the second post and it is written by Shelley White, who I would like to thank very much for accepting to do this! Best Memory of Venice   Venice is our anniversary [...]

When you travel around the world you always collect good memories and bad ones from the various cities and countries you go and visit. But there are places which always leave you an indelible mark and because of this you will never forget that smell, that view, that sound or that particular moment. Venice does [...]

Pumpkin with candle: √ check. Fake spider webs : √ check. Scary customs: √ check. “Trick or treat” street itinerary planned through the town: √ check. Yes, all ready to go for Halloween, but one things is wrong: this is not the U.S.A.!!!! This is Oriago, a small town near Venice, the town where I [...]

Venice: The Arsenal Back in May 2010 I was lucky enough to visit the Arsenale in Venice. The Arsenale is usually closed to the public; it is currently used only in small part as one of the venues of the Biennale di Venezia, but for a few days a year, thanks to an event called [...]

Have you ever wandered around Venice and got blisters on your feet and could not find a pharmacy where you could get some plasters? Have you ever run out of toothpaste, shampoo or you ladies “know what” and looked everywhere for a supermarket and could not find one amongst the calles of the city? Well, [...]

Thanks to Twitter over the last year and half I have been meeting  so many new, fascinating and interesting people which I have lost count of it. But one person in particular I would like to thank for giving me the opportunity to visit one of the most amazing places in Venice, Orsoni Smalti Veneziani, [...]

One of the most interesting, precious and enchanting places in Venice is the Ancient Jewish Ghetto.  As I already said many times before, I always try to go there as much as I can, since it is one of the few places in Venice where really time stands still. I have talked about the Ghetto [...]