Visiting Venice beyond overtourism

Venice is the ‘city of outstanding beauty’, revealed by the predominance of solid italian art, culture and architecture influences but also the coexistence of significant international influences, profiling Venice as a creative ‘chaos-city’ which attracts any kind of interests from all around the world.

Visitors have chance to see international art studios and centers, just randomly walking on some of the 3.000 typical calli (narrow streets) or getting to more exclusive and secluded areas, like the Jewish Ghetto for instance, to find themselves in places as ‘cities within the city’.

Something different? Get the ‘Vaporetto’, the popular local waterbus and leave world-famous Piazza San Marco behind heading towards the Lido where you can discover a few small islands of historical and artistic relevance, perhaps not so popular to mass-tourism visitors.

For example, what to discover? You can visit the Armenian Monastery dated back the 1700s in San Lazzaro degli Armeni Island. Here, twenty-two monks live in the Monastery which also comprises a church, an important library containing 170.000 volumes, 4.500 manuscripts and several Armenian Language Dictionaries.

The Armenian Museum and Culture Centre is one the most renowned Cultural Institutions in the world, including several archaeological findings and ancient objects.

Furthermore, the Monastery garden is well-kept with beautiful rose bushes from which monks produce the ‘varnatush’, a typical Armenian rose jam. On This verdant island, where everything is particularly preserved in its original, natural state, visitors can also find other types of plants and aromatic herbs just outside the Monastery.