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.

Located in the northern part of Venice, the Cannaregio neighborhood was home to the first Jewish ghetto, designated in 1500's. Today, the area is filled with Renaissance-era synagogues and the ...

A break from the heaving tourists is found in this picturesque medieval town offering a laid-back atmosphere known as the City of a Hundred Horizons.