Live Webcams in Venice

Venice, a city of 118 islands and no cars, is the most naturally cinematic place in Italy, and the live webcams in Venice make the most of it: the Grand Canal with its vaporetti and delivery barges, the basin off St Mark's where the big ships used to pass, and the quieter canals of Dorsoduro and Cannaregio, where a gondola is the only thing that moves. Venezia keeps Central European Time, UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer; dawn on the lagoon, before the day-trippers arrive, is the hour these webcams were made for. Sixteen centuries afloat and 400 bridges later, the city still floods — the acqua alta of October to January is visible live, as is Carnival in February, when the masks come out on the piazzas. Spring and early autumn are the seasons to watch it at its best.