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Things to do in Venice

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
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    My top 10: FT art critic Jackie Wullschläger’s favourite church paintings in Venice

    Where to see some of the most beautiful sacred art in the world

    Looking up to the golden Dome of the Ascension in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice, with a large, circular mosaic depicting Christ shown seated on a throne, surrounded by depictions of angels, saints, and prophets
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Franciacorta uncorked: discovering Italy’s answer to Champagne

    This lush, lesser-known wine destination makes for a sparkling weekend trip from Milan

    leading to a historic stone building in a Franciacorta vineyard
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Cities on screen: Venice on film

    Ten movies set in one of the most cinematic places on the planet, chosen by our film critic

    David Lean and a camera operator filming from the top of St Mark’s Basilica during the production of ‘Summertime’
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Beyond the Giardini and the Arsenale: five Venice Biennale shows across the city to catch now

    The off-site and satellite highlights of this year’s edition

    ‘Light Cream Pods (Excerpt)’ by Fatimah Tuggar in the Nigeria Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale: pink-stone square and rectangular holes containing decorated wooden gourds in a brown wall
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    FT readers: your tips on where to find calm and authenticity in Venice

    The places that put the serene back into La Serenissima, as recommended by you

    Looking up a staircase towards a historic ceiling fresco in Combo Venezia
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    My top 10: Jackie Wullschläger’s personal pick of Venice’s Accademia Gallery

    The FT’s art critic’s guide to navigating a world-class permanent collection spanning the 14th to 19th centuries

    The Palazzo Corner Spinelli ceiling, 1542, by Giorgio Vasari, in Venice’s Accademia: panels of celestial figures representing the virtues and their opposites
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Under the spell of Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore island

    A dream-like Palladio church and bell tower, fabled ex-monastery, Borges-inspired maze and lush woodland dotted with starchitect chapels all make for a magical visit

    The Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore Aerial photograph of the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore from a distance
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Back to the (retro)future: Carlo Scarpa’s Modernist Venice

    On the trail of the visionary Italian architect who brought bursts of mid-20th-century sleekness to a storied cityscape

    Detail of the Carlo Scarpa-designed Brion Tomb: a small grey staircase leading up to two overlapping stone-framed circles looking out to a lawn Cemal Emden
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    My Venice, by Diane von Furstenberg

    The designer, philanthropist and resident of La Serenissima shares her favourite places to eat, shop and visit

    Diane von Furstenberg lying on a brown chaise-longue at home in the Palazzo Brandolini, Venice
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Enuma Okoro
    Venice and the memory of water

    The essential ingredient of life is also a conduit for human connection

    A painting of the Grand Canal in Venice from 1740
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    ReviewVenice Biennale
    Venice Biennale 2024 is a rapturous celebration of unfamiliar global artists

    Aesthetics meets postcolonial politics as curator Adriano Pedrosa foregrounds art from Indigenous creators and the ‘Global South’

    A female-form mannequin in an art gallery wearing a short skirt covered in illuminated bright green lights
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    The best way to see Venice? As captain of your own ship

    Even in summer, a self-drive, live-aboard boat offers an antidote to overtourism

    The church of Il Redentore, seen from the Giudecca Canal
  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
    Venice travel
    Beyond the Rialto: island-hopping in Venice’s lagoon

    Big cruise ships have been banned from the city but a smaller riverboat offers an ideal way to explore the less-visited islands

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