About Venice

Shaped by world renowned artists, sculptors, painters and architects, including da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli and Tintoretto, Italy is like an open-air art gallery and nowhere more so than Venice.

Built on 120 small islands that are connected by more than 400 bridges, you feel as if you have stepped into an oil painting. St Mark's, the grandest square in Venice, is dominated by the cathedral the same name. One of the world’s finest examples of Byzantine architecture, it has a fabulous gold interior that is covered in mosaics.