Adventures in Venice
£50
It may be touristy, it may be sinking, it may be smelly in summer, but Venice is magical in autumn when the mists rise off the lagoon and things calm down. Head to the Cannaregio Quarter, where you can learn how to punt a classic gondola and visit the oldest Jewish ghetto in the world. It’s easy to hop on a Vaporetta and whizz into St Mark’s Square, too.
LAY YOUR HEAD Hotel Heureka is a new concept hotel in a 16th-century canal-side palazzo with 10 suites and a secret garden in the Cannaregio Quarter. Lavishly baroque but not vulgar, doubles start from £164 a night including breakfast.
Visit i-escape.com/hotel-heureka GETTING THERE Fly from Stansted to Venice with Ryanair from £75 return.
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