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Venice offers several hidden gems, churches, museums, courtyards but also artisan shops and ateliers run by skilled artisans. If you think you are already familiar with all artful hand-made items [...]

Sie waren schon mehrmals in Venedig und möchten nun einen ehemaligen privaten Palast am Canal Grande besichtigen. Dann eignet sich Ca’ Rezzonico bestens dafür. CA’ REZZONICO Der Palast wurde 1936 [...]

Ci sono opere d’arte iconiche che sono entrate nel nostro immaginario collettivo, come gli angioletti di Raffaello oggi allo Zwinger a Dresda, la ripetizione seriale del volto di Marilyn Monroe [...]

Are you planning a guided tour through the highlights of Venice, but you also believe you can learn a lot from other food cultures? Well, we can add one hour for a Venetian culinary experience [...]

In 2020 and 2021 a new, terrible virus and the subsequent resulting COVID pandemic turned the world upside down. We all were suddenly confronted with words such as to be in lockdown, FFP2 masks, [...]

If you are planning a trip to Venice in the post-covid ‘time’ and you would like to relax in a safe open area, we could plan to visit one or more of the private, often hidden and hence secret [...]

Haben Sie je erlebt, wie man Papier marmoriert? Es ist ein scheinbar einfaches handgeschöpftes Verfahren. Relativmäßig schnell läßt man Farben in ein Becken hineintröpfeln und diese bilden einen [...]

Are you familiar with the enigmatic 16th century wooden sculptures ‘hieroglyphs’ by the relatively unknown Venetian virtuoso sculptor Francesco Pianta in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco? Have you [...]

The oldest theatres in Ancient Greece were open-air theatres built on the sides of hills consisting of orchestra (the centre), skene (backstage where actors could change, originally just a tent, [...]

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 [...]