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ABOVE: Maggie, the protagonist of Maggieinvenice.com, heads our public-relations outreach. INSET BELOW: On-the-spot research at the Guinness World Record-breaking "Aperol Spritz toast" in the Piazza San Marco.

by Durant and Cheryl Imboden

Venice for Visitors started life in early 1996 as "The Baby Boomer's Venice." In 1997, it became Venice for Visitors at The Mining Co. (later renamed About.com). We've operated the site independently since 2001 as the most popular section of Europe for Visitors (our Forbes and Washington Post "Best of the Web" site about European travel and cruising) and, more recently, with our Venice Travel Blog.

PC Magazine has called this site "the premier visitors' site for Venice, Italy," and we work hard to keep it that way. Over the years, we've invested countless hours and many thousands of euros in creating, maintaining, and publishing useful material for independent travelers--and in serving it from 23 data centers around the world.

Everything here is free.

You don't need to buy an e-book, an app, or a subscription to read our in-depth information and advice. We run fewer ads than most travel-planning sites do, we don't solicit donations, and we decline offers of "sponsored content." (We support our site--and ourselves--with ads and booking commissions.)

Don't forget to write!

We welcome your feedback via e-mail. You can reach us at [email protected].

Thanks,

- Durant and Cheryl Imboden

The premier travel-planning site
for Venice, Italy since 1997

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• MSC Poesia Cruise Review
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• Venice Travel Blog
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