This past weekend was the inaugural MORE Festival. It was four days of live performances by French indie bands and acclaimed DJs playing beautiful historic venues across Venice, Italy.
But as I walk into the Pavilions, I forget all my troubles, all the hassles getting to Venice, all the constant queues (and my footwear); I am transported into the magic of the Art. All the pavilions are offering something to discover, to receive, to learn from. And that makes me humble and so happy.
Snaketails of umbrella-led tour parties predominate. While luckily less so in the spring, the cruise ships and coaches still regurgitate vast lumps of the very old and very young, united in their ability to irritate as they wind down the narrowest of streets.
You've seen her from behind - now here's the face of the snapper's muse who features in a series of globetrotting photographs that have gone viral. ...
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Apparently every single one of us wakes up on 14 February with nothing on our minds but roses and hearts and kittens and chocolate and strangely inflammable looking lingerie. Well here's a handy Valentine's Day tip: 'if it's supposed to be romantic, it probably isn't'.
Three months ago I decided to quit my London job and move to Venice for the winter to look after a 15 year old girl and a dog. It was my quarter-life crisis.
It's hard enough to write about Venice without becoming engulfed in a landslide of cliches - and near enough impossible when you factor in the city's ...
Something very special that happens every year without fail and without any doom nor gloom, just plenty of elegance, colour and tradition. It is the event of the year in Venice's calendar and it explains why you'll find rows and rows of masks in the souvenir shops and how you will find the magic of Venice is still alive.
Three occupants of a car have been swept to their deaths off a collapsed bridge in Tuscany, reports the BBC. Northern and central Italy has been hi...
Flooding in Tuscany has led to the evacuation of more than 200 people while high waters in Venice have left more than two thirds of the city submerged...
We visited Venice this autumn, to see the architecture biennale, not that we ever need an excuse to go to our favourite European city.
Pierce Brosnan has turned his hand at learning a few words of Danish for his latest film, Love Is All You Need, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week.
The 69th Venice Film Festival kicked off in Italy on Wednesday with the premiere of Kate Hudson's Mira Nair film The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The...
The company behind the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster has introduced a raft of new safety measures as it launched a new liner. As the new Cos...
There's no doubt that Venice is beautiful - but if you want to see it in an even more beautiful way (without getting on a plane), you could do a lot w...
Pasta-shaped radio waves have solved the problem of broadcasting in a congested city. Italian and Swedish researchers have created fusilli-shaped ...
Parts of Amsterdam’s canal system have frozen solid for the first time in over a decade. Residents took full advantage of the occurrence and str...
Venice’s famed waterways have fallen victim to the cold snap, with some canals freezing solid as temperatures dipped as low as -10C. The ferry ...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Oscar winner Colin Firth says he was all too happy to step aside and take a supporting actor role for his "meaty" new part in Tin...
The actress, who is attending the renowned international event to promote her latest film A Dangerous Mind, played it more casual than yesterday's sho...
The Times on Saturday described Keira Knightley as 'the cinema equivalent of Marmite'. Whether you admire or admonish her acting skills, editors seemed united about one thing this week: the British starlet makes for a rather more glamorous front-page photo than the riot splashes and Libya pictures of August. Seemingly starved of upbeat, positive things to write about, the British press looked to Venice this week and its A-list-littered film festival. Not, of course, that every article filed from the red carpets was positive.
Madonna’s film career has been chequered to say the least so it’s no surprise that her latest offering premiered at Venice Film Festival yesterday...
Madonna and Wallis Simpson have much in common. Twice divorced, scandalous Americans exiled to London, who both seem to abide by Wallis's famous advice, "you can never be too rich or too thin."
Were it not for George Clooney, the Venice Film Festival would have sunk faster than the city itself.
