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Children and teenagers travelling to Venice are often already familiar with La Serenissima thanks to two books, Carnival at Candlelight (2006) by Mary Pope Osborne and The Thief Lord (published [...]

HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE Chocolate has ancient, exotic origins. It comes from an evergreen plant in Mesoamerica, named in the 18thCentury by the Swedish botanist Carlo Linnaeus Theobroma cacao [...]

Shops run by skilled artisans producing their artful hand-made objects are getting rare in a time where shops selling the same junky items can be easily found all over the world. In Venice [...]