VENICE, Italy — Venice’s Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe and one of the first in the world, and a new effort is underway to preserve its 16th-century synagogues for the Jews who have ...

VENICE, Italy -- Venice's Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe and one of the first in the world, and a new effort is underway to preserve its 16th-century synagogues for the Jews who have ...

From Florence to Mantua, the Renaissance left the Italian peninsula with a dazzling architectural heritage. Cathedrals, palaces and villas still bear the imprint of this artistic revolution, born of a ...

Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the ...

Here's what Venice looked like in the 1300s, according to a friar on a pilgrimage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Venice was ...

Interiors of the Spanish Schola Synagogue in Venice, northern Italy, are seen in this picture taken on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. The Spanish Schola, founded about 1580, but rebuilt in the first half of ...