Monocle launches Venice city guide highlighting hidden gems and local artisans

Monocle has released an online Venice city guide, drawing on years of reporting by a Turin-born writer who first visited as a child. The guide features independent workshops, hotels, restaurants, bars, cafés and shops discovered during the writer's work on the Monocle Travel Guide Series and subsequent visits to the Art and Architecture Biennale. It emphasizes steering readers away from over-hyped locales toward quiet calli and residential sestieri such as Cannaregio, Castello and Dorsoduro. The writer recounts experiences like observing glass-blowers in Murano and hopping across vintage bagni on the Lido, and notes that Venice remains a functioning city despite overtourism, with a vibrant contemporary art and design scene that inspires young generations.