Ride a gondola in Venice

A city built on water with no cars — gondolas, Byzantine mosaics, and getting happily lost in the back canals

Masked balls and Carnevale in the floating city — 18th-century costumes drifting through misty winter squares

The world's oldest film festival — red carpets on the Lido and the Golden Lion every late summer

Ferry to the Venetian lagoon’s rainbow island of fishermen’s houses and handmade lace

Pale limestone towers that turn rose-pink at sunset — Italy’s most spectacular mountains

From Venice and Verona to Prosecco hills and Dolomite peaks — Veneto spans lagoon to mountain

The glamorous "Queen of the Dolomites" — ski slopes, jagged peaks, and a 2026 Winter Olympics host

Ezio Auditore in Renaissance Florence and Venice; the game that made the series.