Here are some of the best pictures so far from one of the world’s most lavish carnivals. VENICE, ITALY - FEBRUARY 4: Actors perform on boat along the Gran Canal for the opening of the ...

The Gallerie dell'Accademia is to Venice what the Uffizi is to Florence: a superb repository of the very best of the city's art. Tintoretto's ghostly Transport of the Body of St Mark is my ...

Flooded Venice has been hit by a new high tide of 154cm (5ft), giving residents no respite from a crisis costing Italy millions of ... far ahead as December, as photos of Venice underwater spread ...