Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.

Pope Francis greets people as he leaves St. Mark’s Square in Venice in a golf cart April 28, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VENICE, Italy (CNS) — Visiting a lagoon of tiny islands, canals and narrow ...

Visiting a lagoon of tiny islands, canals and narrow walkways for one day, Pope Francis moved around Venice by boat, bridge and electric golf cart. Tourists and residents, however, came to a ...

Beguiling, mysterious and touchingly beautiful, Venice conquers all, as Larry Writer discovered on a leisurely tour around this legendary Italian jewel-box. Venice is one of the highlight cities of ...

This year’s lineup includes films from Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos and Bradley Cooper in which female characters squirm under the thumbs of egocentric men. By Jessica Kiang The critic Jessica ...