shuzVENICE

shuzsociety and Millennium Travel have compiled a list of key points for your Venice stay:

fast facts:
• Venice: Venezia

• Venice stretches across 117 small islands connected by 400 bridges in the marshy Venetian Lagoon

• Temperature: Highs in the mid-60s to Lows in the hi-40s

• Shakespeare selected Venice as the setting for “Othello” and “Merchant of Venice”

• Ernest Hemmingway, Marco Polo, Claude Monet and Casanova called Venice home

significant sights:
• Piazza San Marco - one of the most impressive Grand Squares in all of Italy

• St. Mark’s Square - St. Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace

"Here it is S. Marco, the tower, the piazza, Palazzo Ducale. Probably such a jewel doesn't exist anywhere else in the world." ~ Hippolyte Taine, French critic and historian

• Guggenheim Museum – in the heart of Venice, contains more than 50 world-class masterpieces

• Villa Foscarini Rossi - located 40 minutes from Venice.

• Centro Calzature Rossimoda – Rossimoda’s factory shoe outlet where we’ll find Christian LaCroix, Donna Karan, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Kenzo, Celine and more…

What they say:
"The women of Venice are beautiful but, more to the point, they are flirtatious." ~ Ange Goudar, Nomadic writer

"A realist, in Venice would become a romantic, by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him." ~ Arthur Symons, British poet, critic and magazine editor

"As sailors and merchants, town-builders and politicians, the Venetians were the forerunners and the youth of today's civilization." ~ Le Corbusier, Swiss-born architect, urbanist and writer

For the complete “Made in Italy” itinerary, you’ll find details here about reserving your space, your deposit and accommodations…

ENGLISH: This shopping has me hungry for great food.
ITALIAN: Questo acquisto mi ha affamato per grande alimento.