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Venice hit with high flood waters again Venice is reeling from rising flood waters that reached 150 centimeters today alone. This is the third exceptional tide to hit the city.

A spacious property in an Italian palazzo on Venice’s famous St. Mark’s Square came onto the market this week for €10 million (US$11.7 million). For the past three decades, the 1,000-square-meter ...

For hundreds of years, an iconic bronze statue of a winged lion has been perched on a column in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square. But new research suggests that the sculpture may have originally come from ...

Pope Francis will travel by motorboat along Venice’s canals and offer Mass in St. Mark’s Square during his visit to the “floating city,” the Vatican announced Monday. The Holy See Press Office has ...

When floodwater rolls across St. Mark’s Square, it does not arrive with a roar. It seeps up through the stone, pooling around ...

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Venice is famously not short of tourists, but its newest sight aims to harness the city’s overtourism problem by pointing visitors towards social responsibility. The Procuratie Vecchie in St. Mark’s ...