Category 05

Lagoon & gardens

Beyond the city itself, the lagoon is a slow horizon of silt and water. Two places where Venice lets you breathe.

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The only sizeable public park in central Venice — laid out on Napoleonic landfill in 1807 and now scattered with the nat…

An island of painted houses in the northern lagoon — Venice's lace-making town, kept brightly colored so its fishermen c…

More categories — palaces, churches, museums, monuments and the lagoon.