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Venice Travel Information & Venice Luxury Vacations

It's easy to forgive Venice for its eternal preoccupation with its own beauty. All the picture books in the world won't prepare you for the city's exotic landmarks, among them the Basilica di San Marco and the Palazzo Ducale, rising like mirages from the lagoon. With sumptuous palaces and romantic waterways, Venice is straight out of an 18th-century Canaletto masterpiece. Venice is called La Serenissima (the "most serene" one), a reference to the monstrous power, majesty, and wisdom of this city that was for centuries the unrivaled mistress of trade between Europe and the Orient and the bulwark of Christendom against the tides of Turkish expansion. The most serene also refers to the way in which those visiting have looked upon Venice, a miraculous city imperturbably floating on its calm, blue lagoon.

Entirely built on water by men who dared defy the sea, Venice is unlike any other town. No matter how many times you have seen it in movies or TV commercials, the real thing is more surreal and dreamlike than you ever imagined. Its landmarks, the Basilica di San Marco and the Palazzo Ducale, seem hardly Italian: delightfully idiosyncratic, they are exotic mélanges of Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance styles. Sunlight shimmers and silvery mist softens every perspective here, a city renowned in the Renaissance for its artists' rendering of color. It is full of secrets, ineffably romantic, and -- at times -- given over entirely to pleasure.     Learn more about Italy.

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Our customized luxury travel experiences are perfect for singles, couples, and families, and they include the following:

• Select accommodations in the best Luxury hotels and resorts in select destinations

• A choice of one destination or multiple destinations

• Daily Spa treatments and participation in all classes (depending on hotel selected)

• Daily breakfast

• Sightseeing tours in each city

• Local dining experiences or optional cooking classes (our culinary tours)

• Cultural performances / dinner shows or theatrical performances

• Optional shopping tours

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We are offering the following European destinations for 2008:

• Cannes, France

• London

• Florence, Italy

• Milan, Italy

• Nice, France

• Rome, Italy

• Venice, Italy

• Paris, France

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