This is the Cannaregio chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guide-book.

Cannaregio is a well-balanced residential neighbourhood of unpretentious, patrician palazzi (mansions), picturesque campi (squares) and quiet canals. It also has some of the city’s best lo-cal bars, restaurants and shops.

• explore The Ghetto, the historic island home/prison of Venice’s Jewish community, which offered refuge from the Inquisition and sparked a Renaissance in thought
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• discover Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli, the marble-clad church that marked a turning point in the city’s ecclesiastical architecture
• transport
• pay respects to the genius of Tintoretto at Chiesa della Madonna dell’Orto, a simple struc-ture filled with the master’s works
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Activities.

This is the Castello chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guide-book.

Stretching eastwards from San Marco, Castello is the city’s most sprawling neighbourhood – exploring its entirety in one blast will test your walking shoes. Start with its most compelling sites, including the masterfully grand Zanipolo church and the recently inaugurated Ocean Space gal-lery.

• take an early-morning or evening stroll along the Riva degli Schiavoni, Castello’s pictur-esque waterfront promenade
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• gawk at the sheer scale of 14th-century Zanipolo and admire the masterworks of painting and sculpture contained within
• transport
• view classical statuary in theatrical Palazzo Grimani, which was designed as a stage set around them
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Activities.

This is the Day Trips from Venice chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Vene-to guidebook.

Want to escape the city? This chapter includes the very best excursions from Venice & the Veneto and they can each be completed in a day. Must-sees include Brenta Riviera and Pad-ua.

• The 18th-century Venetian elites gambled away their summers in Palladian-style villas at the Brenta Riviera
• Explore the vibrant university town of Padua and its treasure trove of fresco cycles from its medieval golden age
• Palladio’s adopted home, Vicenza, is defined by the architect’s classical restraint, while its countryside is dotted with his elegant villas
• Prosecco country is just the spot for a glass with hard-working locals in one of the Veneto’s most underrated areas
• Romeo and Juliet were fictional, but Verona’s real history lives on in its Roman arena, Romanesque churches and Renaissance churches
• Valpolicella yields some of Italy’s biggest, boldest reds, while Soave delivers crisp, refresh-ing whites

Coverage includes: Brenta Riviera, Padua, Vicenza, Prosecco Country, Verona, Verona’s Wine Country.

This is the Dorsoduro chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guide-book.

Dorsoduro is home to some of Venice’s most high-profile galleries along with some fascinat-ing art-filled churches. If you’re an art aficionado, you’ll need two or three days to do it justice; fair-weather fans could cram a lot into a day.

• get a crash course in Venetian painting at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, positively blushing with masterpieces of glowing colours, censored subjects and breathless elegance
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• test the curative powers of Baldassare Longhena’s mystical architecture and finding hid-den Titian wonders at the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute
• transport
• waltz through baroque palace ballrooms, salons and boudoirs surrounded by sublime Ve-netian art at Ca’ Rezzonico
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping.

This is the Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guidebook.

Other cities have suburban sprawl; Venice has medieval monasteries floating in teal-blue waters. To the east and south, the seaward side of the lagoon is sheltered from the Adriatic by Pellestrina and the Lido di Venezia, for centuries the bastions of the city.

• immerse yourself in the bright serenity of Palladio’s eye-catching Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore and ascend its campanile (bell tower) for spectacular views over San Marco
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• view Palladio’s cloister, Longhena’s elegant library and a precise reproduction of Verone-se’s vast Wedding Feast at Cana in the refectory where it originally hung, at Fondazione Giorgio Cini
• transport
• gain insights from one of the resident Armenian monks as you tour around Monastero di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, their island home
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

This is the Murano, Burano & the Northern Islands chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guidebook.

A multitude of islands dot the northern lagoon like shards of green glass splintering off the mainland. The northernmost islands are sleepy, with only pretty Burano attracting significant tourists. Murano’s famous glass workshops continue to conjure magic from their red-hot furnac-es.

• engage with visions of angels, saints and dastardly demons within the golden glow of an-cient mosaics in Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, the lagoon’s oldest church
• maps
• witness artistry in action at Murano’s glass-blowing showrooms, explore glass-making his-tory at the Museo del Vetro, and shop for a unique memento
• transport
• watch colourful houses shimmer with delight at their own reflections in Burano’s canals, and learn about the island’s lacy legacy
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Shopping.

This chapter contains the Welcome to Venice, Venice’s Top 10, What’s New, Need to Know, Top Itineraries, If You Like..., Month By Month, With Kids, For Free, Tours, Escaping the Crowds, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, and Shopping chapters from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guidebook.

Your journey to Venice & the Veneto starts here. You’ll find the tools to plan your adventure: where to go and when, how much to budget, plus in-depth info on escaping the crowds.

• tailor-made itineraries, arranged by region, themes and events
• list of highlights and best experiences
• everything you need to know about traveling with kids
• user-friendly country overview ensures you won’t miss a thing

Coverage includes: Welcome to Venice, Venice’s Top 10, What’s New, Need to Know, Top Itineraries, If You Like: Curiosities, Fashion, Boats, Hidden Gems, Sweet Treats, Backstreet Bars, Local Hangouts, Month By Month, With Kids, For Free, Tours, Escaping the Crowds, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, and Shopping.

This is the San Marco chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Veneto guide-book.

The neighbourhood of San Marco is Venice’s oldest and most famous. With the palace, pris-ons, government offices, mint and library crowding around the basilica, Piazza San Marco was the fulcrum of Venetian power and it attracts the majority of visitors today.

• join the chorus of gasps rippling through the crowd as you enter Venice’s magnificent Ba-silica di San Marco, looking up to discover angels dancing across 8500 sq metres of glit-tering golden mosaics
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• discover over-the-top state rooms, dark secrets, dingy prisons and blockbuster exhibitions behind the rosy façade of the Palazzo Ducale
• transport
• shout ‘Brava!’ from one of the boxes at Venice’s jewel-box La Fenice for an encore perfor-mance
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping.

This is the San Polo & Santa Croce chapter from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Vene-to guidebook.

So this is how Venice lives when it’s not busy entertaining. These twin sestieri are a warren of winding lanes in which you can easily lose yourself for hours browsing artisan studios and neighbourhood churches, before emerging in sunny campi (squares).

• see lightning strike indoors at lavish Scuola Grande di San Rocco, where Tintoretto’s streaky brushwork illuminated hope in a time of plague, death and despair
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• watch Titian’s red-hot Madonna light up cavernous I Frari, lined with fanciful memorials to the city’s politicians and artists
• transport
• work up a serious appetite over lagoon surf and turf at gut-rumbling, produce-bursting Ri-alto Market
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping.

This chapter contains the Venice Today, History, Architecture, The Arts, The Fragile Lagoon, Transport, Directory A–Z and Language chapters from Lonely Planet’s Venice & the Vene-to guidebook.

All the info you need on everything from history, arts and architecture to flights, public transport, climate, money, the internet... you name it. Get tips for women travellers, gay and les-bian travellers, travellers with disabilities, and travellers with kids. And get the most out of your conversations with a handy language guide and glossary.

• a rundown on the challenges Venice faces today, and the efforts being made to conserve the fragile lagoon
• info on the city’s architecture, from glittering Byzantine mosaics to sumptuous palaces
• full coverage of the history of city and its rise as a maritime power
• details on the colour, sensation and subversion of Venice’s arts

Coverage includes: Venice Today, History, Architecture, The Arts, The Fragile Lagoon, Transport, Directory A–Z and Language.