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Stories Set in Venice
Masked balls, sinking palazzos, Casanova's escapes and Poirot's canalside cases — Venice may be fiction's most atmospheric city. These ten famous works span the Republic to today; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 115 books, 99 movies and 25 games set in Venice.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In 1938 an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it and the missing man is his…

A Haunting in Venice
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered the detective is thrust…

Penguins of Madagascar
Skipper Kowalski Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

From Russia with Love
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the…

The Italian Job
Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up…

Inferno
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

The Tourist
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elsie on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud but there's more to her than meets the eye.

The House of Hades
Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their…

Don't Look Now
Laura and John grieved by a terrible loss meet in Venice where John is in charge of the restoration of a church two mysterious sisters one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

Moonraker
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate traveling to California to meet the company's owner the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr.…
The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 239 in the catalogue for this entry. Also try Renaissance Venice (1400–1600) and 18th-century Venice. For the full live catalogue, open Venice in the StoryTerra app. On the live map you can also filter by the exact time the stories take place — any year, decade or century, from BCE to the future.
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