When you come to Venice for the first time, you bring with you all the baggage of expectations, many of which come true. All photos of the Palazzo Ducale, Basilica of San Marco, St. Mark's Square (known simply as "Piazza”), the Rialto Bridge and the palaces over the Grand Canal, which has been watched so far, they are simply documentation of extraordinary reality. Many of the stories about the city are also true. Venice is bursting at the seams with tourists, whose annual influx exceeds two hundred times the number of its inhabitants. A few years ago, the situation became so dramatic, that all these were banned from entering the city, who have not booked their accommodation in advance. The city is expensive too: for the price of a good dinner in any other part of Italy, in Venice you can get a very lousy meal, and local hoteliers ruthlessly take advantage of the situation of a significant excess of demand over supply.
As soon as you start exploring the city though, each day will bring you new surprises. Moving away from the Piazza, you enter a city landscape so extraordinary, that it is impossible to walk more than a few meters and not come across something interesting. More important monuments, such as the San Rocco Scuola, Accademia, Ca d'Oro, the huge church of I Frari and the equally magnificent San Zanipolo are scattered throughout the city, and you won't actually find a parish, whose church wouldn't have even one, a remarkable altar or architectural detail. Even though Venice can be incredibly crowded, outside the immediate vicinity as attractive as a magnet, full of sellers of kitsch souvenirs in St. Brand, you can (especially out of season) find such city neighborhoods, in which you will be practically alone. You can live sparingly in Venice: apart from the famous Rialto, there are a lot of other fairs, where you can shop cheaply, there are places, where you can eat a relatively inexpensive lunch, you can also find hotels, where you do not have to spend a fortune for the night.
Tourism is not the only source of income for the Province of Veneto. Within its borders there are some of the most fertile vineyards, and on the opposite side of the Venetian Lagoon, w Marghera, the largest industrial complex in the country is located. Tourism is very important here, however, and this region has the largest number of accommodation places in Italy. Outside of Venice, the most important centers of tourism are Padua and Verona, where Giotto's painting masterpieces are located, Donatello and Mantegna and a great number of wonderful buildings, dating from Roman times to the Renaissance. No other city in the region can compete with the cultural riches of these two former rivals of Venice, though between the Polesine plains to the south, and in the mountains to the north there are many places, that are worth making a detour, e.g.. miasto Palladia - Vicenza, Montagnana fortresses, Citadel of Castelfranco, or located on the highlands, the idyllic town of Asolo.
For hikers, most of Veneto can seem monotonous: it is a lowland, intersected only by lonely hills around Padua and Vicenza. The area of more interesting landscape is situated in the north of the region, especially around the town of Vittorio Veneto, where great for excursions, forested hillsides, pass into the wild gulfs of the eastern Dolomites.