Venice Travel Guides
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Where to eat in Venice: delicious addresses you’ll love (best restaurants and bacari)
Our guide to where to eat in Venice: our list of the best restaurants in Venice for a family meal, best bacari for cicchetti, best gelato and bakeries in Venice, based on our own experience. Finding good food in Venice can sometimes feel like an impossible task. The city has plenty of restaurants everywhere, so you’ll hardly go hungry here. However, the prices are sensibly higher than in other cities, the menus tend to focus heavily on seafood (great if you love it, not so great if you want variety) and we found the quality to be often a little lacking, especially at a price point that, in another city,…
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Visiting Murano with Kids: all you need to know to visit Venice glass island
Practical family guide to visiting Murano with kids: why go, what to do while there, where to eat and what to expect from the most popular of the islands of Venice. Murano is one of the two most visited islands of Venice and a cool place to visit with children. Only a short ferry ride from Venice proper, Murano is the home of the unique craft of glass blowing and a fabulous place to get children to experience this incredible art. Murano became the home of glass furnaces in 1291 and has been devoted to glass making ever since. Furnaces and shops are everywhere here and, truly, if you are…
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The islands of Venice with kids: why and how to visit Murano and Burano as a family
Our guide to visiting Murano and Burano with littles. A practical guide to help you plan a visit to the most famous islands of Venice with kids. How to get there, best family things to do, best family friendly boat tours. Murano and Burano are two of the most famous islands of Venice and a lovely place to spend a day with children in the greater Venice area. Murano is famous for being the home of glass blowing furnaces, and it is fun families who want to show the kids this ancient and unique craft. Burano is famous for lace but this is not what kids usually remember about it!…