Venice

This compact, pocket-sized Venice travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips and those trying to make the most of Venice. It's light, easily portable and comes equipped with a pull-out map.

This compact, pocket-sized Venice travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips and those trying to make the most of Venice. It's light, easily portable and comes equipped with a pull-out map.

If Venice were a violin, the canals would be its strings, gondolas would be its player and the sea its luthier. Everything about Venice resembles an age-old fairy tale, or, as observed by Gerolamo Bardi, more than four centuries ago in his “About the Notable Things of Venice”; an impossible-possibility, a grandiose wonder, standing so far from the norm that it even can’t be considered a human creation but instead has to be placed unswervingly in the realm of God.

Venice, during the time of Vivaldi, Jommelli, and Porpora, was a city pulsating with musicality: everyone made music, lived from opera to opera, the baker delivered his bread singing, people spontaneously sang songs on the streets. In short, Venice was a bustling city, vibrating with the most beautiful tones and harmonies, produced by its residents and composers.