Geoff Woolery was landscaping outside his townhouse on Manayunk’s Venice Island last summer when scores of dump trucks began trundling by. He watched the hours-long parade, increasingly curious as the ...

Tucked away among a grouping of islets off Italy's northeast coast, the fish-shaped city of Venice is made up of six neighborhoods, called sestieri. The small islands of Lido, Murano and Burano ...