This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nowhere in Italy ... is there a crisis more beautifully framed than Venice. Neither land nor water, but shimmering ...

During Venice’s seasonal floods, facades in Piazza San Marco appear as shifting reflections—some more clear than others. The mirror image above ran in the magazine. Until recently, Cobb kept ...

The group dined together at a restaurant in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 31 Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest.She joins having ...

Nothing I heard or saw at the 80th Venice Film Festival felt more momentous than the news that came from Berlin after four days of screenings. On September 2, Berlinale artistic director Carlo ...

On the Adriatic island of Korčula, where Venice once ruled, ancient habits and attitudes persist—including a tendency toward blissful indolence Michael Dobbs Victoria Pope A look back on the ...