Venice Is an Upside-Down Forest. Startling Engineering Has Kept City Afloat With Just Wood for More Than 1,600 Years ... knew that underneath the Venetian buildings, there are the trees of ...

Venice is famously not short of tourists ... installed underneath the sloping beamed roof of the building. Formerly the headquarters of Italy’s Generali insurance company since 1832, the ...

In the mid-1600s, opera transformed from a show exclusive for royalty to entertainment for the masses. Soon, lavish productions, special effects, and creative risks became the norm. Venice’s La ...

Venice, with its maze of canals and historic buildings, won't be added to a list ... member states decided Thursday not to add Venice, Italy to the World Heritage in Danger list.