Like most Italian cities, Venice is synonymous with immense beauty and historical significance, but it’s unique geographical makeup of tiny islands makes it a destination unlike any other in the country.
The romantic city of Venice — which Lonely Planet perfectly describes as “a floating masterpiece” — is the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region and is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals – including the famous Grand Canal thoroughfare that is fringed with striking Renaissance and Gothic palaces.
