Venice: The Rough Guide, Third Edition

by Jonathan Buckley, Hilary Robinson

This guide provides an insider's view of Venice, locating the quiet corners, giving background information to all the sights, and showing how to enjoy Venice without breaking the bank. Features hotel and resturant listings, from basic hostels and cafes to million-lire-a-night luxury; entries on all the Venetian festivals - from the all-night party of the Festa del Redentore to the glitz of the Biennale, Europe's most glamorous showcase for modern art; coverage of the Veneto region, with entries on Padua, Treviso, Vicenza and Verona, plus accounts of the Palladian villas, the vineyards of the Dolomite foothills, and lesser-known attractions; and feature articles on conservation and economy.

Genres: Travel

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Jonathan Buckley was born in Birmingham, grew up in Dudley, and studied English Literature at Sussex University, where he stayed on to take an MA. From there he moved to King’s College, London, where he researched the work of the Scottish poet/artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. After working as a university tutor, stage hand, maker of theatrical sets and props, bookshop manager, decorator and builder, he was commissioned in 1987 to write the Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto.

He went on to become an editorial director at Rough Guides, and to write further guidebooks on Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, as well as contributing to the Rough Guide to Classical Music and Rough Guide to Opera.

His first novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, was published by Fourth Estate in 1997. It was followed by Xerxes (1999), Ghost MacIndoe (2001), Invisible (2004), So He Takes The Dog (2006), Contact (2010) and Telescope (2011). His eighth novel, Nostalgia, was published in 2013.

From 2003 to 2005 he held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at the University of Sussex, and from 2007 to 2011 was an Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, for whom he convenes a reading group in Brighton.