Venice is the most unique city in the world. One can not smile and fall in love with the paradise of the city on water. If romance is what you are seeking this is the city for you.

With live music playing such as the violin, piano and flute the setting is a great place to dream.

Venice By Night - Idyllic Romantic Destination

Venice is a place that you can not ever get enough of. It will consume your imagination not matter who you are.

Il Duomo San Marco Venice

Piazza San Marco is the city’s main public square and contains its most famous buildings such as St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace. Napoleon called it,
“the world’s most beautiful drawing room”.
 Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice.
Venice By Night - Idyllic Romantic Destination

To sit and soak up images, Venice tells an enduring love story that spans over 1000 years. It is a city in the world that has and can host movies of love, passion and romance.

San Marco Square Venice

Elegance

Venice is an elegant city. It is the presence of the most admired architect in the world. A city built on the water without modern technology. What vivid imagination, vision and work ethic these Italians once had. Venice is all about the romantic mood of the time. The fashions, the interest of the times and history of the very people who once walked here.

 Piazza San Marco Venice

Dream And Dress Up

Venice is a place to recapture your passion for your partner and life. it’s a city of everything that made up the magnificent ephemera that provides a setting for the timeless beauty of the most enchanting city in the world.

 Piazza San Marco Venice

I often see people kissing passionately on the streets. That is what Venice is all about.

 Piazza San Marco Venice

Walk Venice

Venice is all about the walk. It is why today when you visit, you can revisit looking at the compelling and passionate works of these visuals pioneers, they gave us new eyes to do so.

Venice By Night - Idyllic Romantic Destination

The lighting in Venice is forever changing.

Opulence and art are soothing to the soul. It’s what we need right now in this pandemic world of restriction.

Grand Canal Venice

Visiting museums is a tendency, to immerse in the art and architecture of the past. Venice is a  convergence of all the possibilities of language, capable of bringing together traditional buildings. Being able to take in the complexity and diversity of the Mediterranean and Italian cultural heritage.

 Piazza San Marco Venice

Feeling Dizzy

In their various pursuits of the absolute, these Italian artists attempted to find pure form, a sublime perfection, so exacting that it makes me dizzy.

Gracie Opulanza Grand Canal Venice

I often sit and look upon the Grand Canal and just can’t believe this fantasy world I am living. Venice is a place of experience and vision where people of the past worked relentlessly to fulfil the dreams of the most demanding architecture in the world. How it gets preserved in the future is a balance between tradition, innovation and massive determination of passion.

A fight against the most powerful Italian leaders of the world in Italy, The Mafia who make 50billion a year. Sadly it’s why Venice and Italy are crumbling before my very eyes. So many buildings here need so much money and repair.

Venice Italy Rooftop Palazzo Mora 2021 (2)

Don’t forget to have a coffee at the famous Florian.

Venice - Florian Coffee House (6)

The more large hotel chains, Airbnb and foreign investors buy for commercial use. The future of Venice romantic charm is being washed away.

Gracie Opulanza Venice 2021 Covid 19 survivor

So many new hotel chains in Venice now, that has lost their architectural charm.

Mass tourism destroyed Venice leather shopping, food quality and made this city dirty and polluted.

brown dress

Venice is getting a rest and I pray, it remains that way for years to come.

 

Gracie Opulanza Venice 2021 Covid 19 survivor (2)