The Latest Breaking News from Venice

Palazzina Grassi: all the seduction of Venice in an intimate setting

It's a favourite with the A-list, so does it live up to the hype? Cathy Hawker checks in

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2024

Othello at Shakespeare's Globe review: arresting update set in the toxic Met Police feels horribly credible

This intimate, powerful production transposed from Venice to the Met in London refreshes the play and feels horribly credible

Evening Standard · Jan 31, 2024

The stuff of legend: Luigi Nono’s extraordinary Prometeo returns to Venice

The Italian composer’s self-styled ‘tragedy of listening’ has been restaged in the Venetian church where it premiered 40 years ago – an exercise in listening on the most profound level

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Venice will limit tour groups to 25 people and ban loudspeakers to control tourism

City officials say the new rules, set to take effect in June, will help lessen the impact of tourism on the local community.

WEKU · Jan 1, 2024

Folk singer Daisy Rickman: ‘My Cornish village has become this strange, beige kind of Disneyland’

The talented, hypnotically deep-voiced West Country musician left for Venice and Berlin, but returned to find a thriving folk revival – and looming gentrification

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2024

"The enthusiasm is back, just like when I started out 38 years ago" – A year with a Leica M11

Landscape photographer and Leica convert Jeremy Walker tells of a year with the camera he abandoned his Nikon for

Digital Camera World · Dec 31, 2023

Venice to limit tourist group size to 25 to protect historic city

Move aims to reduce pressure of thousands of daily visitors to Italian city and protect residents

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023

Venice to ban loudspeakers and large groups of tourists

New measures are set to come into effect in June next year

The Independent UK · Dec 31, 2023

In Italy by Cynthia Zarin review – essays to bookmark with a train ticket stub

The American poet’s acutely observed writing about cities she has visited across 40 years is haunted by past lovers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023

Italy: Venice to ban large tourist groups and loudspeakers from June

Officials hope new rules will help improve movement through Venice's historic centre

Evening Standard · Dec 30, 2023