Time Out Venice - Verona, Treviso & The Veneto - 4th Edition: Verona,Treviso and the Veneto

by TimeOutGuidesLtd (Author)

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  2005

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  A uniquely glorious repository of some of the greatest works of Western art, Venice has - naturally - long been a tourist mecca. Yet around its best-known sights, Venice can seem a victim of its own popularity, with a daunting concentration of souvenir shops and tourist-trap restaurants between the attractions. With the help of local journalists, writers and experts, the Time Out Venice Guide leads you to the corners of the city. It's in these backstreets that you'll discover Venice's truly excellent eateries, and its fascinating shops selling everything from hand-crafted spare parts for your gondola to handmade gondola-shaped shoes. The influence of the Venetian empire spread far beyond the lagoon, as does the territory covered by the Time Out Venice Guide. From Padua to Treviso, from Verona to Vicenza, the stunning cities of the Veneto region are explored and explained.

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  2007

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  Exquisite and unique, La Serenissima is anything but serene these days, and efforts to shrug off the city's artistic theme park status are apparent on many fronts. Some of the architecture world's top names are working on exciting new projects; long-standing hoteliers are being forced out of their exorbitant complacency by a rash of newcomers; and a born-again community of sophisticated urban artisans is demanding (and creating) parallel eating, drinking and entertainment scenes rarely impinged upon by the ever-present tourist hordes. Even the art scene is being shaken up. The 2006 reopening of Palazzo Grassi - refurbished by Tadao Ando for French billionaire owner Francois Pinault - now poses a serious challenge with its top-level shows; and when Pinault moves his extraordinary permanent collection of contemporary works into premises on the Punta della Dogana, Venice is set to become one of Europe's contemporary art capitals.