With water, water everywhere, Venice, Italy, is a small and entrancing city, said to have more great art and architecture per square inch than any other place in the world. Hot in July and August, its weather is generally mild through the rest of the year, though punctuated by thunder and rainstorms.
Founded more than a thousand years ago by refugees erecting houses on stilts on mudflats, Venice has grown into a city of 117 painstakingly constructed islands, connected by some 150 canals and 400 bridges. Its roads being canals of water it has no cars or lorries; its stone built sidewalks are elegant and historic.
Venice is not only built over water, but celebrates on water too, holding more than 100 regattas every year. February has the famously picturesque Carnevale, its celebrants adorned in wigs and masks. In May the ceremony of "wedding" Venice to the sea takes place, a reminder of its time as head of a maritime empire and trading network. Fireworks explode at July's regatta, the Festa del Redentore; September is the time for an historic gondola race.
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