Description: A travel guide to Venice, Italy - All the top sights, museums, churches, hotels, and restaurants, along with money-saving tips, how to get to Venice and get around in Venice, great guidebooks, and other practical information
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Venice is a city of stone built on the water —or at least on the marshy mudflats of a lagoon—a feat of engineering and determination if ever there was one.
Imagine a city of 118 islands threaded by 180 canals, these watery roads lined by Gothic-filagreed palazzi , spanned by 409 lithe footbridges, and plied by fleets of crooked-nose, coffin-black gondolas .
Picture a tangle of ancient alleys, the houses often no more than shoulder-width apart, connecting countless pocket-sized campi (squares), each anchored by a church filled with Titians and Titorettos or a museum stuffed with Renaissance or modern art.