Holly D. Johnson Considered to be the main street of Venice, the roughly 2-mile Grand Canal is one of the city's most popular and highly photographed attractions. Recent travelers recommend hiring ...

A jewel of a city audaciously built on 118 tiny islands and a network of waterways, Venice is an imperiled ... the sleek gondolas can detour off the Grand Canal into smaller, less-traveled waterways.

Specialists at the Wallace Collection in London have attributed an 18th-century work depicting the Grand Canal in Venice to Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of the famed Venetian view artis ...