By Durant and Cheryl Imboden

Venice Travel Blog is an archived extension of our travel-planning Web site, Venice for Visitors, which PC Magazine has called "the premier visitors' site for Venice, Italy." We've kept this blog's content online because it's packed with evergreen information and photos about Venice.

Tips:

• For up-to-date advice on transportation, hotels,  sightseeing, cruising, and other Venice travel topics, head directly to Veniceforvisitors.com. (Our "Introducing Venice" article is a great place to start if you're a first-time visitor.)
  
  
• If you're fond of animals, take a look at our dog blog, Maggie in Venice: A Bearded Collie's Adventures in Italy.