Venice is considered among the most beautiful
holiday destination and best preserved cities in the world, unique in the fact that it is the only city in the world built on water. With 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. 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 and its stone built sidewalks are elegant and historic.
Venice is not only built over water, but celebrates on water too, holding more than one hundred events every year. The famous carnivals takes place in February with its celebrants adorned in wigs and masks. In May the ceremony of "wedding"
Venice to the sea takes place and September is the time for an historic gondola race. Also there are many other big and small events organised on water.
Venice boasts luxurious shopping, an elegant fish-rich local cuisine and centuries of experience in giving pleasure to its numerous visitors. It is acclaimed by many as the "Queen of the Adriatic", sophisticated and stylish, romantic and mysterious - in short, the most beautiful city in the world.
