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Venice: Live from Gondolas on the Grand Canal

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Six gondolas, live musical accompaniment, and a lot of “Prosecco” – beware, tourists! Six gondolas abreast down the Grand Canal? Tony and Helen Page brave a slightly out-of-control shared gondola cruise (maybe the prosecco had something to do with it) that starts off at the Rialto Bridge and parties on down the famous Venetian waterway. […]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: Actv, gondola, gondola cruises, Grand Canal, rialto bridge, seafood risotto, tourist restaurants, Venice

Sightseeing in Style and Comfort on the Vaporetto dell’Arte

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Venice Hop-on Hop-off Waterbus

The Vaporetto dell’Arte Connects Visitors to Art Galleries and Other Venice Attractions: [Service Suspended] – It was thanks to a very persuasive ticket seller that I found myself buying tickets for the Vaporetto dell’Arte.  At the San Marco vaporetto stop, I had five minutes to buy our vaporetto tickets before our waterbus for Piazzale Roma […]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: Actv, transportation in venice, vaporetti, vaporetto, vaporetto dell arte, venice vaporetto, venice waterbus

Venice Connected and Vaporetto Tickets

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VeniceConnected

Buying Your Vaporetto Tickets On-line With Venice Connected You can now buy your transport ticket on-line through the Venice Connected website. Venice Connected vaporetto travel ticket prices used to be based on your planned date of travel and vary depending on whether it’s Low/Medium season, Medium/High season or Peak period and it was possible to […]

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Vaporetto dell’Arte – Venice’s Hop-on-Hop-off Waterbus

By Helen Page 1 Comment

Venice Hop-on Hop-off Vaporetto

Vaporetto dell’Arte – A Waterbus Line Connecting Visitors to the City’s Cultural Attractions: Venice has always been a city that’s best explored on foot. As the city is car-free and vaporetto stops are not always close to the cultural attractions, walking is the best way of getting around Venice, that is if you are a […]

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Practical Information for Venice

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San Marco, Venice

Practical Information for Venice Venice Tourist Information Centre Piazza San Marco, Venice Tel (041) 522 6356 American Express San Marco 1471, Venice Tel (041) 520 0844 Hospital: Ospedale Civili Riunti di Venezia, Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo 30122, Tel (041) 523 0000 This hospital is housed within the ‘Scuola Granda di San Marco’, next to […]

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