Planning a trip to Venice? Want to know how to capture great photos of the iconic churches and bridges in Venice? Our travel photography guides are focused on the information you need. Inside, you’ll find: - Detailed maps and diagrams - Photos, including the DSLR camera settings and the exact location where the photo was taken - Logistical information to ensure that you’re at the right place at the right time - Ways to get the photo whilst avoiding the crowds This sub-guide is part of a bigger travel photography guide that covers all of Venice. Inside you'll find lots of specific tips for planning and the logistics of getting great photos of the churches and bridges of Venice. Our guides help you save valuable time in researching and planning, allowing you to focus on your photos.
Planning a trip to Venice? Want to know how to take great photos for social media, travel blog, or to simply enjoy? Our travel photography guides focus on the information you need: - Detailed maps and diagrams - Tips on planning your journey - Logistical information to ensure that you’re at the right place at the right time - Ways to get the photo whilst avoiding the crowds We've described what you need to know to photograph: - Piazza San Marco area, including Basilica di San Marco, Palazzo Ducale, Torre dell’Orologio, and the Campanile di San Marco - Churches including Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore - Bridges, including the Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto) - Key landmarks including the Rialto market, Venetian Arsenal, and Teatro la Fenice - Venetian lagoon islands including Murano, Burano, and Torcello. - Gondolas, including route maps - Exploring the six sestieri (neighbourhoods) of Venice Our guides help you save valuable time in researching and planning, allowing you to focus on your photos.
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an arc from the city’s humble origins as a lagoon refuge to its apex as a vast maritime empire and Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a modern tourist hub. Madden explores all aspects of Venice’s breathtaking achievements: the construction of its unparalleled navy, its role as an economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its popularization of opera, the stunning architecture of its watery environs, and more. He sets these in the context of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, the endless waves of Crusades to the Holy Land, and the awesome power of Turkish sultans. And perhaps most critically, Madden corrects the stereotype of Shakespeare’s money-lending Shylock that has distorted the Venetian character, uncovering instead a much more complex and fascinating story, peopled by men and women whose ingenuity and deep faith profoundly altered the course of civilization.
An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal). Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos. In Brunetti’s Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye, fascination with history, ear for language, passion for food, and familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon’s wonderful mysteries.
"Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the enchanting canals and historic streets of Venice with E.V. Lucas in 'A Wanderer in Venice.' Penned in the early 20th century, this travel narrative provides readers with a delightful and insightful account of Lucas's experiences as he explores the unique beauty and cultural richness of the City of Canals. As Lucas meanders through picturesque landscapes, visits iconic landmarks, and immerses himself in the artistic and architectural wonders of Venice, 'A Wanderer in Venice' is more than a travelogue—it's a literary expedition that captures the allure of this timeless city. Join E.V. Lucas on this literary journey where each page reveals a new layer of Venetian splendor, making 'A Wanderer in Venice' an essential read for those captivated by tales of travel and the magic of one of the world's most iconic cities."
Insight Explore Guides: pocket-sized books to inspire your on-foot exploration of top international destinations. Experience the best of Venice with this indispensably practical Insight Explore Guide. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see attractions like St Mark's Square and the Rialto bridge, to discovering hidden gems, including the less-travelled and more authentic backwaters of Dorsoduro, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will help you plan your trip, save you time, and enhance your exploration of this unique city. - Practical, pocket-sized and packed with inspirational insider information, this will make the ideal on-the-move companion to your trip to Venice - Enjoy over 14 irresistible Best Routes to walk, from the Grand Canal to the outyling islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello - Features concise insider information about landscape, history, food and drink, and entertainment options - Discover your destination's must-see sights and hand-picked hidden gems - Directory section provides invaluable insight into top accommodation, restaurant and nightlife options by area, along with an overview of language, books and films - Inspirational colour photography throughout About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
