Venice
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Romantic, beautiful, fascinating – Venice is a dream destination a mere couple of hours’ flying time from the UK. It’s everything you want it to be, and more.
Fairytale palaces line the curving Grand Canal, Venice’s ‘high street’. By day the colours – of the buildings rising from the water and the endless variety of traffic along its route – are mesmerising. At night, as street lamps drizzle gold and silver patterns over rippling waters, chandeliers tease from palazzo windows and candles flicker on waterside tables, it is magical.
There’s so much to see around St Mark’s Square and on the Grand Canal that on a first visit it’s tempting to spend all your time there. But it’s also very crowded. Surprisingly there is a quiet Venice, a city of dark-watered canals and tree-filled squares, where the only sounds are your footfalls and the water lapping against the boats moored below you – and it is not far, sometimes only moments, off the tourist track.
It’s easy to get lost in Venice, but not for long, and not disastrously. Soon you’ll come across a wall sign directing you to a main route or the nearest vaporetto stop. And there’s a huge pleasure in simply wandering and making endless discoveries along the way – tiny shops, craftspeople in their workshops, local cafés, art-filled churches, and the narrow, washing-hung lanes of real life Venice.
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