This is the walking guide to Venice taking in the cultural highlights & illustrated with paintings photographs & engravings to reveal how the city became how it is today. None of Venices innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissimas character with quite such a combination of the scholarly the informal & the intimate. Over the years thousands of readers starting this book have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city
- Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down & have a coffee: but by the time they get to the end of it all the same they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place its art & history besides being subtly entertained throughout. (from Jan Morris introduction to this new 8th revised edition published on the occasion of the titles 40th Anniversary).