There´s no better way to start the day than by leaving your guidebook in the hotel, wandering the charmingly ramshackle back streets and getting a real flavour of the sinking city.
Despite Venice´s perennial hazards - pollution and mass tourism - no matter how many times you´ve seen Venice as a cinematic backdrop it never fails to impress.
At the heart of the city, Piazza San Marco corrals together Venice´s two biggest attractions. The mosaic clad Basilica di San Marco is a sublimely ostentatious display of the city´s former wealth, and suitably crammed with priceless artefacts.
Nearby the gothic Palazzo Ducale has had various incarnations
| Avg. temp. |
Sunshine daily avg. |
Rainfall | Humidity | |
| Jan | 5.5 | 3 | 37 | 70 |
| Feb | 7.6 | 3.6 | 48 | 66 |
| Mar | 11.8 | 5 | 61 | 63 |
| Apr | 16.5 | 6 | 78 | 63 |
| May | 21 | 7.8 | 65 | 62 |
| Jun | 24.7 | 8.5 | 69 | 63 |
| Jul | 27.2 | 9.8 | 52 | 61 |
| Aug | 26.8 | 8.5 | 69 | 60 |
| Sep | 23.8 | 6.6 | 59 | 61 |
| Oct | 18.5 | 5.1 | 77 | 63 |
| Nov | 11.8 | 2.4 | 94 | 71 |
| Dec | 7.5 | 2.6 | 61 | 71 |
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