VENICE — Earl Midlam wants to build a new home for Old Betsy, the 1926 LaFrance Fire Engine — which is older than the city of Venice itself and was once used to fight fires from Gulf Gate to Englewood ...

In a letter to his wife during a stay at Venice’s Casa Kirsch (now Hotel Metropole) in 1895, Sigmund Freud wrote: “Don’t expect me to send you much in the way of a description. The thrill of being in ...

Schools and local businesses have shuttered during what has become the second worst flooding in Venice history. The exceptionally high tides, known as acqua alta in Italian, have flooded more than 85 ...

Venice has for centuries been a magnet for those longing to get lost there — both physically lost in the city’s famously confounding streets, and emotionally lost in its charisma, beauty and air of ...

VENICE – In many ways, the ongoing effort to rewrite Venice's land development rules for the first time since the 1970s is an attempt to formulate a new perspective of how to best view the history of ...

Iranian mask artisan Hamid works in his shop "Ca' del Sol" near St. Mark's square during the first day of carnival in Venice February 1, 2015. Reuters Venice's annual celebration of masks, costumes ...

The severe flooding in Venice Tuesday into Wednesday saw waters rise to the second-highest level on record, peaking at just over six feet, or 1.87 meters, in the historic city and popular tourist ...