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Top Ten Tips for a Visit to Venice

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I recently spent almost a month backpacking around major Italian cities before which I had done an extensive amount of research on each place. I now want to share my top tips for future visitors to Italy and highlight some of the amazing hidden gems I wished I'd known about before we went. The first Italian City we visited was Venice and so I will start there. St Mark's Square, Venezia Venice is beautiful. It is expensive and it is touristy but it is beautiful. I spent three days in Venice which was long enough to see all the major sites but I would go back in a heartbeat to just spend days wandering aimlessly around the narrow streets and canals. Out of the ten Italian destinations we visited,  I would definitely put Venice in my top 3.   1. Walk Everywhere!  All the main tourist sites are within walking distance and you never know what you'll find up the many side streets. As I said before Venice is touristy so the further away from the major attracti