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When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.