Venice

After the stall during 2020’s pandemic, travellers have come storming back exponentially each year

The politicians pushed mass tourism at the cost of human capital, so the historic (depopulated) city wasn’t prepared for the extreme tides

Italian Environment Minister Sergio Costa blamed climate change and the "tropicalisation" of violent rainfall and strong winds

Becky Barnicoat checks in to Venice’s slickest new hostel and finds it’s a far cry from the dowdy, dirty crowded digs conjured up by the name.

It has taken six years, but the secrets of Venice’s watery back alleys have finally succumbed to Google Street View.

Glass has been made on island in the Venetian lagoon for hundreds of years but now the future is far from clear.

Forget the tourist traps in Venice: the best way to eat in the floating city is to find its back-street bacari, writes Gavin McOwan.

Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favourites for awards at this year’s Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number…

I’m Not There, a biopic of folk icon Bob Dylan in which he is conspicuously absent but omnipresent, should ”wash over you like a dream”, the film’s director, Todd Haynes, said on…

Watching thousands of tourists stroll through Venice’s Saint Mark’s Square, steward Giovanna is ready to step in at the first sign of unacceptable behaviour — picnics, bare…

As a character, he has been rocketing across our screens for half a century, but few remember that the original Superman, George Reeves, died in mysterious circumstances in the…

Brian de Palma’s noir movie The Black Dahlia premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim on Wednesday as its 21-year-old star, Scarlett Johansson, paraded down…

Critics and public at the Venice film festival have made the George Clooney directed Good Night, and Good Luck the clear favourite to win the two-week event’s prestigious Golden…