Venice Snippets

Image courtesy of: www.aviewoncities.com
and of: http://www.cellartours.com/italy/italian-wine-maps/

Snippets of info about Venice, our host city for our October 8-day painting workshop.  Venice is located in the Veneto region, where some of the finest vineyards are located.  If you can add on a few days to the tail end of the workshop, why not visit the countryside?

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The historic part of Venice, which consists of 6 sestieri, is home to 60,000 people (as of the 2009 Census), while the town of Venice proper houses 270,000 as of 2008's numbers.  That's actually gone down from 1991 when it was 310,000.  

The Venice city area is 177 sq. miles.  According to Rick Steves, "you can walk across it, from head to tail, in about an hour."  

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Wine in Italy: Top 10 Guide

The vine-clad hills of Collio, northern Italy. Photograph by John Brunton
Courtesy of http://www.guardian.co.uk

Italy's north-eastern Collio region offers a startling array of little-known wines, with small, friendly vineyards to visit and a selection of cosy places to eat and stay between gulps.

An hour's drive north east from Venice, the rolling vine-clad hills of the Collio region boast an outstanding selection of white wines and some surprising reds too. These can be followed on a narrow, winding Strada del Vino that runs for 50km from Dolegna del Collio, past the regional "wine capital" of Cormòns, as far as San Floriano del Collio. Winemakers are very happy to receive visitors, and many offer B&B accommodation too. The distinctive local cuisine is hearty mitteleuropean rather than classic Italian, and every month sees some kind of wine event – from Cantine Aperte at the end of this month (26 May) to Jazz&Wine...read more HERE.

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