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How to buy a ticket, how to use it and how much it costs! You need to buy a ticket before getting on board, and you buy tickets from the ticket seller or new multilingual ticket-vending machines at the boat stop. The machines take credit cards, euro banknotes or euro coins. They do give change, but the maximum you can get back is €9.95. For stops (fermate) that only serve one line, there will be just one landing stage, so you only need to make sure the boat you board is heading … [Read more...]
Vaporetti: Where they go in Venice and route numbers You can split the various routes or Linee (lines) into three main categories: Venice City Centre Lines Circular Lines Lagoon Lines Venice City Centre Lines No mystery here. These routes are the ones you'll use most. They criss-cross the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal, with fermata (stops) giving easy access to most of the famous sights and monuments you'll want to … [Read more...]
Venice Airport Transfer: Treviso Airport, Also Known as Venice Treviso or Venice Canova: Treviso Airport (Aeroporto di Treviso-Sant'Angelo) is generally referred to as Venice Treviso as the airport is located 3 km south-west of Treviso. Since the opening of its new terminal in 2007, it is also known as Treviso Canova (Aeroporto di Treviso A. Canova). The airport is approximately 40 km from Venice city centre. Venice Treviso is a small airport with only one runway, but over 2.2 million … [Read more...]
How to get to St. Mark's Square from just about everywhere in Venice Let's face it, at some stage every visitor to Venice wants to get to Piazza San Marco, St. Mark's Square, and the truth is that there are little signposts to it from just about everywhere. Unfortunately, Venetian street directions can leave something to be desired, especially if you're just visiting. In a couple of places you can find signs to San Marco facing in diametrically opposite directions! No doubt you can … [Read more...]
Getting Around Venice: There are two main ways of getting around Venice: walking or using some kind of boat; you could swim, but I wouldn't recommend it! Public Water Buses | Car Ferries | Water Taxis | Gondolas | Traghetto | Walking and also see our quick guide:How to Reach Piazza San Marco (St Mark's Square) from various locations around Venice and the Lagoon Public Water Buses (Vaporetti) Venice has water buses, commonly known as Vaporetto … [Read more...]
Street Flooding, "high water" in San Marco: Venice City Guide Acqua alta (High tides) We've all heard about Venice flooding and seen the news shots of people wading through the waters in St Mark's Square. But actually Venice only has Acqua Alta (high water) in Autumn and Winter when some streets and squares flood, and even then there are only a few days when the waters get really high and cause disruption. The main difficulties result from the water rising … [Read more...]
Maps of Venice Historic City Centre and the Lagoon You'll certainly need a map to get around Venice when you're there - the one given out free by the Venice Tourist Authority is very useful - but it's also a good idea to get a feel of the various districts and the layout of the place before you go, or select a hotel. On the ground, Venice 's backstreets and bridges can be quite confusing, so it's useful to have at least an approximate picture of the city's groundplan (or canal plan!) in … [Read more...]
Gondolas in Venice Not just a rowing boat - how it's built, traditions and "the gearbox"... A Gondola can be up to 11 metres long and 600 kg in weight, but still only needs one man with his single oar to propel it along, albeit in a stately fashion. Not many people know that gondolas are built asymmetrically; the left side is larger than the right by 24 cm and so it always floats along leaning slightly to one side. As a result, the gondolier does not have to keep … [Read more...]
Arriving by car in Venice Getting to Venice: From the west (Turin) or east: You'll probably travel to Venice via the A4 autostrada. From the south: the A13 from Bologna as far as Padua and then via the A4 again. From the North (and Trieste): the A27. If you're arriving by car and want to give the Autostrada a miss, try the state roads (SS.309 Romea from the Adriatic Coast, SS.14 from Trieste, SS.13 from Treviso, SS.11 from … [Read more...]
Arriving by plane in Venice: Transport from Marco Polo Airport to Venice: Venice Marco Polo International Airport (VCE) Marco Polo Airport "reflects the uniqueness of Venice. The airport's architectural features highlight the lagoon environment and are suggestive of the city's civil and industrial architecture (such as the historic Arsenal). The visual impact is strong. With the city outlined on the horizon, the great windows overlooking the lagoon are an immediate and intense link with the … [Read more...]
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