The article presents an analysis of the travel books written by three Czech authors who visited Venice around the 1870s and 1880s: Výlet do Benátek (Trip to Venice, 1874) by Jindřich Lorenz (1854–1935), Cesta z Vídně do Terstu, Benátek, Římu, a popis Italie (Journey from Vienna to Trieste, Venice, Rome and Description of Italy, 1881) by Ludevít Rajmund Pazdírek (1850–1914), and Cesta do Lublaně a do Benátek (Journey to Ljubljana and Venice, 1888) by Jan Jelínek. The analysis focuses on three themes related to the travel experience: mobility, gastronomical aspects, and cultural heritage. The data collected enables the author to describe how Central European tourists lived, perceived and narrated the city in that period.
