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Perhaps more than any city in the world, Venice invites you to do nothing... blissfully so. Nothing, that is, except walk, marvel, glide along canals in a boat or gondola, take time out in restaurants and cafés or for the odd bit of shopping, and visit spectacular museums. Some of the greatest delights the city has to offer can be found simply by wandering around and getting yourself pleasurably lost.
Along the way, you’ll be able to drop in on churches and palazzos resplendent with fine art and grand architecture, ranging back through a thousand years of Venetian history. You can see some of Italy’s greatest paintings in situ, and also in top-ranking museums – then, when you’re museumed-out you can collapse at a terrace café, sit at a table beside a canal and watch the world go by.
Venice is not the sort of city that offers ‘entertainment’ in the sense of commercial schemes of merriment. Bear in mind that this is a village really, of only 60,000 permanent residents. Nightlife is low-key – there’s a small bar and club scene, there’s also the world-famous opera house and the casino, but night-time activity focuses generally on what visitors most want to do, which is simply hangout, have dinner and a drink or two in one of the most romantic settings on earth.
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