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Canaletto’s Venice Revisited review – pre-tourist masterpieces resist the climate crisis narrative

Linking Canaletto’s paintings of a fading Venice to current climate concerns seems a bit pointless – these stately home treasures already depicted decay

The Guardian - UK

Four-star hotel arms guests with water guns to protect them from seagull attacks

A hotel in Venice, Italy, is so sick of the seagulls stealing people's lunch and carrying out random attacks that they have handed guests water pistols - and they say the strategy is already working

Daily Mirror

Venice hotel guests issued with water pistols to shoot gulls

Hoteliers find a solution to marauding birds that have become an increasing problem for guests dining al fresco

The Guardian - UK

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Venice tourists given water pistols to fend off aggressive seagulls

‘A gull flew off with an entire steak,’ says hotel manager

The Independent UK

Italy slowly easing long-lasting Covid rules ahead of Spring influx of UK visitors

Long-awaited relaxation of travel rules has brought Italy back on the radar and there are a wide range of experiences of offer

Wales Online

How you can get bargain flights to Barcelona, Venice, Madrid and more for as little as £26

May is the best month to bag a deal on flights, according to this travel expert

Wales Online

Ukrainian artists embraced as Russia sees cultural blacklist

The Venice Biennale art exhibition says it is working to make sure the artist representing Ukraine can come to Italy and show his work

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Pavlo Makov, Ukraine’s Venice Biennale artist, on why he’s standing firm in Kharkiv

This is not a war between Ukrainians and Russians, he says, but between opposing mentalities - and Ukraine has been expecting it

Evening Standard

Alan Carr says Melanie Sykes' Venice fling saw women flock to city to find love

Comic Alan Carr said his friend Melanie Sykes is responsible for giving a boost to the tourism industry in Venice after undertaking a romantic getaway to the Italian city of Venice and prompting women to flock to the city looking for love

Daily Mirror

‘Bleak, marginal and unpopular’: Australia unveils divisive exhibition for Venice Biennale

Marco Fusinato describes his experimental noise project as ‘discordant intensities’, with his curator hoping that people who hate it will ‘hate it right away’

The Guardian - AU

How to spend a winter weekend in Venice

Kate Lough explores Venice’s quieter districts during a sunny weekend in February

Evening Standard

Couple traumatised after being chased and beaten in horrific homophobic attack

Sunday Russell, 29, from Glasgow, and partner Martina Bressamutti, 28, have been left traumatised and suffering with "daily" panic attacks after being subjected to a vicious homophobic attack in Venice, Italy

Daily Mirror

Scots couple chased and beaten in a horrific homophobic attack in Italy

Sunday Russell, 29, has been left with a 'severe' fracture after the unprovoked assault in Venice, Italy.

Daily Record

‘A testament to his joyous personality’: the stars of Roger Michell’s final film, The Duke, pay tribute

As the director’s last feature – a true-life crime caper – finally opens, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Anna Maxwell Martin and more remember the quiet genius of British cinema

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Venice Carnival brings hope of a return to normality after Covid

Two years after the pandemic shut down celebrations, tourists and locals returned to the streets this weekend

ABC News

As tourists begin thinking about an overseas holiday, some destinations are wary about having too many back

As international borders reopen and people begin making holiday plans, some popular destinations are putting in measures to keep tourist numbers down, or at least make sure they stay on their best behaviour.

Reuters

Venice's 'Carnival of hope' kicks off as COVID worries ease

Thousands of people revelled in the start of the annual Carnival celebrations in Venice on Saturday, marking a slow return to normality after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the two previous editions.

AFP

Venice glassblowers scorched by blazing energy bills

Rome (AFP) - The blown glass creations forged in the furnaces on Venice's Murano islands are prized around the world -- but soaring gas prices are threatening the centuries-old craft.

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The Guardian - UK

Marco Polo had previously unknown daughter before marriage, will suggests

Research by Venice student uncovers evidence explorer may have been father of woman called Agnese

Daily Mirror

Woman faked engagement with £3 ring and bagged free food, gifts, and days out

Fran Starkey admitted to faking being newly engaged on a girls' holiday to Venice in order to blag freebies on the trip. She even bought a £3 fake engagement ring off eBay for the prank

Los Angeles Times

Hundreds of tents that lined Venice Beach are gone, but residents say job is far from done

LOS ANGELES — From his home across the street from a homeless shelter in Venice, Shawn Stern sometimes turns on his video camera to document a disturbance that has grabbed his attention.

The Hindu

A painter, a writer and a refugee walk into a book …

When in Florence for the biennale where my wife’s sculptures were being shown, we had a day to ourselves. Should we visit the Venice biennale and its supposedly cutting-edge modern art, or Rome, for t

The Independent UK

Woman reveals genius trick for getting a free Venice gondola tour

A whizz around the city’s canals for free? We’re listening

The Independent UK

Tourist thrown out of Venice for posing topless on war memorial

Woman was spotted on monument for Italian war heroes

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If you’re planning a trip abroad, you no doubt already have a few popular (and probably pricey) destinations in mind. Here are some smart alternatives.

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