Despite some flight delays, everybody arrived safely at last. Because some of the students got into Venice too late to go to the local grocery store, we ended up grabbing a quick dinner close to our palazzo. Here are all our students and, front right, our fantastic CIEE in-country contact, Elena, who meet them...
Read more →The Venice Biennale refers to the art organization in Venice and the name of the original exhibition that is put on “every other year” (hence the name, Biennale) on odd-numbered years. The history of Venice Biennale began in 1983 when the city council decided to start up an art exhibition to show off the...
Read more →Another BBC article on avoiding “tourist trap” restaurants in Venice says that locals advise “visitors to use guide books rather than sources like TripAdvisor when looking for a restaurant in Venice.” As you may know, it’s relatively easy to scam online sites like Yelp! or TripAdvisor — read the article about the young man...
Read more →Several Japanese students studying in Bologna visited Venice and ate at a restaurant close to St Mark’s Square where, they report, they were charged $1,347 for a steak dinner for four. Some other students reported being charged $285.79 for seafood pasta for three. Eating in the tourist areas of Venice can get pretty expensive,...
Read more →We are hoping to be able to take all our Imagining Venice students to a Save Venice art restoration site in the city this summer. Save Venice is one of the charitable groups that regularly cleans and restores great art and architecture within the city; its administration was somewhat less-than-glowingly discussed in John Berendt’s...
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