Tucked away among a grouping of islets off Italy's northeast coast, the fish-shaped city of Venice is made up of six neighborhoods, called sestieri. The small islands of Lido, Murano and Burano ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North ... To put things in perspective, the exhibition displays a color-coded map of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 1566, that compares ...

But despite this, Venice never loses its capacity to enchant: stepping out of the station to be greeted by a glittering canal with the dome of San Simeon Piccolo beyond remains heart-stopping ...