Las Vegas City Guide: The Venetian Las Vegas Resort - Travel & Discover

The Venetian and its 4,000 rooms divided between two towers is a little piece of romantic Italy in Las Vegas. The spirit of Venice is alive in the Venetian resort, complete with frescoes, gourmet food, canals, gondolas, and strolling performers. Gaze through the renaissance windows of the resort toward St. Mark's bell tower and miniature. Get into a gondola. This isn't the lagoon. The water's clean, in a place where water shouldn't even be. Listen to the songs of the gondoliers and watch the lovers, spellbound under a mischievous moon. Las Vegas isn't known for its historic buildings, especially on the Strip, for this is a town that reinvents itself every few years. Historic hotels such as the Dunes, Sands, Hacienda, Landmark, and Aladdin, the names that first gave Las Vegas its name, were unceremoniously pulled down to make way for new, grander hotels. Strange to say, but in this region of immense open spaces, land is precious along the Strip, and building the newest, biggest, poshest attraction is the name of the game. Casino moguls compete with each other in the attempt to build the best and most modern resort, so that they can continue to attract ever larger numbers of tourists, and top each other in the race to be the next big thing. The Venetian Palazzo Sands Expo megacenter will soon get even bigger. The Palazzo project is described as a world-class luxury hotel, casino, and resort, with a design and ambience reminiscent of high-end locales such as Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Rodeo Drive.