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It's hard to believe, but it's true: The Venice you know from reading books and watching Merchant Ivory films really is that magical, improbable water world—a timeless place where footsteps clatter along dark cobblestone alleyways, and gondolas glide through narrow canals. Of course, if you only stick to the main tourist tracks between St. Mark's and the Rialto Bridge, it can also be a place of annoying, slow-moving hordes and tacky souvenir shops. To glimpse the real Venice, where people shop rauc_us_y in markets and hang washing out to dry across the streets, where children scream through squares on bicycles and older folks stroll elegantly arm in arm, you'll need to venture off the beaten path. Bring good walking shoes and a sense of adventure, and be willing to get lost.
For a note on Venetian addresses, see our Fact Sheet.
Jacopo Robusti (c. 1518–94)—better known as Tintoretto—spent most of his artistic life with a major chip on his shoulder. Until his...more
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