Italy
About Venice
Venice should not exist, and yet there it is-palaces rising straight from the lagoon, streets made of water, a whole civilisation built on stilts.
Step off the Grand Canal and the crowds vanish into silent alleys where laundry hangs over green water and footsteps echo. This was a maritime superpower for centuries, and the loot of an empire still gilds St Mark's golden basilica.
It's sinking and overrun and impossibly beautiful, a place that feels both eternal and about to disappear.
Drink a small glass of wine-an ombra-with cicchetti snacks at a standing bar where the locals still go.
Get to Venice
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Buses from Venice
Day trips from Venice
- Half day
Burano & Murano
~40 min
The lagoon's colour islands: Murano of the glass furnaces, and Burano — fishermen's houses painted in saturated blues, pinks and oranges along miniature canals, with some of the best lunch stops in the lagoon.
- Day trip
Verona
~1 h 10 min
€5 one wayJuliet's city: a Roman arena still staging summer opera, pink-marble piazzas and river bends beneath cypress-covered hills. Easily reached, easily underestimated.
About Italy
Backstreets, coastline and lunch
Etruscan hills, Baroque cities and volcanic islands, with the cooking changing every fifty kilometres and nobody rushing any of it.
Explore ItalyRegions, highlights and when to go