Questions, answered.

Yes. Open them on any device, bookmark, save to your home screen, share with travel buddies. The site is supported by display advertising, the small banner ads you may see between sections.

We built this map for ourselves over many years. After spending all that time on it, locking it behind a paywall felt wrong. Most travelers won't pay $14 for a map from a stranger, even a good one. They'll happily use one without charge if it's well made. We'd rather have more people travel better and run ads to cover server costs than charge a few people and make money. It's a small site, not a business.

Display advertising, banner ads on some pages. That's it. Restaurants and hotels cannot pay to be added to the map. Tour operators can't sponsor placements. We turned that down on principle. The whole point of curation is that it isn't for sale.

Anything with a modern web browser. iPhone, Android phone, iPad, Mac, Windows PC, Linux. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, all supported. Mobile-optimized layout. Save the page to your phone's home screen and it opens like an app.

For the map to load, yes, it pulls street tiles from the internet. The pin data is built into the file, so once loaded it works on patchy connections. The "Open in Maps" links require internet since they hand off to your phone's mapping app.

Those are databases, comprehensive lists where every business gets included. Reviews regress to the mean. Sponsored placements influence what you see. Tourist-trap pasta places have hundreds of glowing reviews from people who don't know what good pasta is. Molly's Maps is a curation one family's actual recommendations, with mediocre places deliberately excluded.

Because averages tell you what's average. If you ask 1,000 random tourists about pasta in Venice, you'll get a recommendation for a place that's "fine." If you ask one family who's eaten there hundreds of times over the years, you'll get the place that's genuinely great. That's the whole game.

No, completely independent. Our Biennale 2026 guide is built from the official venue list plus our own experience. For official information, schedules, and tickets, go to labiennale.org.

Please do. Send us your suggestion with a sentence or two on why it should be on the map. If it passes our bar, it gets added. (Restaurants and hotels submitting their own venues: thanks, but no, the maps stay curated by us, not by who emails us.)

Maybe. Florence, Bologna, and Naples would be the natural next steps. But this is a side project, not a business, we add cities when we know them well enough to do them right. We'd rather have three excellent maps than ten mediocre ones.

No problem, just ask. We'll get back to you when we can.