Last call for this afternoon’s live-streamed walk from via Giulia to the Tiber Island. 5pm Rome time, 1hr, €25 per screen connection. Zoom webinar so if you’re in your knickers eating marshmallows no-one will ever know. DM to book.

Travelling again? No better place to get going again than #Venice. As I write here...

Italian government introduces new “digital nomad” visas enabling non-EU citizens to spend a year working remotely. Hundreds of hilltop hamlets are being tarted up and fast internet installed | Tom Kington thetimes.co.uk/article/work-a…

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the #BiennaleArte2022 #TheMilkOfDreams is awarded to Cecilia Vicuna. Cecilia Alemani: “For decades, she has travelled her own path, anticipating many ecological and feminist debates and envisioning new personal and collective mythologies.”

#BiennaleArte2022 #TheMilkOfDreams Golden Lion for Best Participant to #SimoneLeigh. “For the rigorously researched, virtuosically realized, and powerfully persuasive monumental sculptural opening to the Arsenale”.

A big celebration calls for a big adventure. So for Interrail’s 50th Anniversary we’re offering 50% off our 1, 2 and 3 month Continuous Passes in a 5 day flash sale ending 10th of May!

🇮🇹Venice is to become the first city in the world to introduce a booking system whereby tourists will have to pay up to 10 euros each to enter telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

I stayed with wonderful Giannina as a teenager. She rowed me round the canals in her boat: not a gondola... a wide-hulled rowing boat, to force gondoliers to make way for her!

In other important news, Madrid has renamed one of its squares Plaza Raffaella Carra...

In difesa del diritto alla libertà di espressione e di creazione, #LaBiennaleDiVenezia chiede la liberazione immediata dei registi iraniani #MohammadRasoulof, #MostafaAleahmad e #JafarPanahi (Leone d'Oro alla #BiennaleCinema2000 con il film #IlCerchio). labiennale.org/it/news/la-bie…

ACTV prices are going up on Sept 1st. But until Dec 31st you can buy 1, 2, 3 and 7 day passes at the old price IF you buy online at least 30 days in advance. E.g. buy a 7-day pass to use starting Sept 9th NOW for 60€ instead of 65€ when you get to Venice. Buy at Venezia Unica.

Sounds most unlikely!

Flags now popping up around the city with the number 49,999, marking the population of the laguna dipping below 50k for the first time in centuries.

Venice population falls below 50,000 for first time - ANSA.it ansa.it/english/news/g…

Heading to #Rome? Don't miss this chance to join Agnes and Rachel's fantastic food tour.

Sarà #AdrianoPedrosa il Curatore della #BiennaleArte2024 (20 aprile > 24 novembre 2024)! Direttore Artistico del Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, ha dichiarato: “Sono riconoscente per questo incarico, soprattutto come primo latino-americano a curare la #BiennaleArte”. labiennale.org/it/news/adrian…

#AdrianoPedrosa will be the Curator of the #BiennaleArte2024 (20 April > 24 November 2024)! The Artistic Director of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, he has declared: “I am humbled by this appointment, especially as the first Latin American to curate the #BiennaleArte” → bit.ly/AdrianoPedrosa…

Trieste is coming back. By @leesitaly @leenelmezzo ft.com/content/e57bd4…

If you're in Rome, go. Villa Wolkonsky is splendid.

Is Venice overcrowded? Of course it is, and locals suffer the fallout. My take. Telegraph Travel Fairbnb.coop Michela Scibilia telegraph.co.uk/travel/destina…