And to be invented. It is not only the target of many tourists going behind their ”Italian speaking guide”. It is not only the obliged site of honeymooning couples. 
It is also the seat of very important international meetings: congresses, culture events, art exhibitions. And also, there is the “minor” Venice, scarcely known by the tourists, but charming  for those who know how to wander around its narrow streets and unexpected squares, passing along silent canals, glimpsing - beyond walls corroded by the green wave - tell-tale private   gardens of the XVIII century buildings. 
Venice is a town for all the seasons. And in Summer, it is also   a sea resort: not of canals and lagoon, but of seaside and bathing life, though many not view this aspect. Where? But at the “Lido”, of course. 
We would leave the readers the pleasure of this discovery; and help them to arrange a comfortable holiday, but “different”. Now some hints. First of all, there are the promotional offers of many hotels, which offer low prices for the months of July and August. 
Therefore, you could book your hotel in the centre of the town and in the morning, after a plentiful breakfast, you can go by boat to the “Lido”. Here it is extremely pleasant to walk along the avenues rich in trees, do shopping, seat for an ice-cream or a soft drink in the outdoors cafés and then devote some time to become sun-tanned on the seaside with white and clean sand. Or rent a boat for a healthy rowing. Diving, then eat a dish of fish and, finally, at sunset, to take again the boat and go back to Venice. 
After supper, the magic of the Venetian summer nights is waiting for us.  
It is a Venetian characteristic, namely “peculiar”, as peculiar is this town, which is similar to no other town - to join in a single period two kinds of so different holidays, the sea and culture lives in an art town. To visit in a Summer the monuments and museums offered by Venice is nearly impossible, since the wealth of treasuries is enormous. However, beyond the “usual” Piazza San Marco and the most renowned places, there are many corners really to be  discovered and too often neglected. For example, Santa Maria Formosa with its irregular square, whose main feature is that it is far from the main places of tourism. The architectural qualities and the silence enable this square to preserve a special enchantment and a nearly untouched atmosphere. At the  Southern-Eastern end of the square, we see the Parish Church  devoted to Maria. In the  church, we see two important pictures, a triptic of Madonna by Bartolomeo Viviani and “Santa Barbara and other Saints” by Palma  the Older. 
For those particularly fond of Gothic art, it is advisable to visit two most interesting examples in Venice. The first one is “Madonna dell'Orto”, a XIV Century church in Campo della Madonna and which, though partly rebuilt for the  last time at the end of 1473, has preserved the fine façade identical to the original one.  
However, “Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo” remains, after Piazza San Marco, the most spectacular example of Venetian   architecture with the church devoted to the two Saints. Indeed, it is the most imposing Gothic building in Venice and many funeral tombs enable to follow the evolution of Venetian sculpture. A Summer holiday in Venice has another fascinating aspect: the nights. Venice has a night life, not noisy and wild, but rich  of “inventions”, such as the outdoors music in the “Sestieri” (quarters), the small gastronomic sagras, the folkloristic recitals, the shows, concerts, fireworks.  
For those who are tired or made lazy by the day in the sun, the evening could end   also at a small distance from the hotels, again in the heart of the town, Piazza San Marco, to listen to a piano bar or the orchestras of famous outdoors cafés. Where sometimes it happens, like yesterday evening (it seemed a romantic movie, but nobody was surprised), that a couple of rather elderly foreign tourists rose from the table and began to dance in that fascinating ”salotto” (drawing-room) which is Piazza San Marco at midnight.