Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the ...

Boats moored in an "alley" in Venice, Italy. (Walt Girdner/CNS) ROME (AFP) — A Renaissance historian has unearthed the oldest known image of Venice dating from the 14th century, showing how even then ...

Churches hung with Renaissance art masterpieces. A canal view down every street. Gondolas weaving their way between ferries and transport barges. Sunset on the lagoon. Venice is everyone's dream city.