Long a city of aristocrats, luxury goods and trade, Venice has an amazing culture. Its fantasy-world atmosphere of elegant decay is like nowhere else in Europe. But with souvenir hawkers ...

Masks, glass, lace: These aren’t just tourist souvenirs, they’re Venetian history ... Lace makers on the Venetian island of Burano are proud of their craft tradition.

Masks and Carnevale celebrations pretty much died with the Venetian Republic, which ended when Napoleon took over in 1797. But the tradition made a dramatic comeback in the 1970s, when the ...

Venice, Italy gets a lot of hate, unwarranted hate in our opinion. Yes, the city can be extremely crowded, the canals can ...

They're beguiling, charming, sometimes unnerving. Others grin or stare you down. These are traditional Venetian masks, and a profusion of them are on display in the expansive showroom of the ...

Venetian Glass, Lace, and Elegance — through an American Eye. Stellar examples of late 19th-century Venetian glass as shown in the exhibition. (Courtesy of Mystic Seaport Museum) ...