October 12th 2009 by admin
Visiting Venice.
When a city, as happens in Venice, has the characteristic rise of more than 100 islets, the alternatives may not be around for two, walk or surf, always armed with a better map of the city, which is essential to navigate between channels, bridges, fields and streets.
Walk
Once you've decided where you want to go, use the map, but certainly not hesitate to ask for directions to some passer-by, provided of course that is the place. The Venetians are usually used to give directions to tourists and their advice will really help you: Only those who know Venice well knows how to mix properly waterways with those of land to reach their destination quickly, especially trying to avoid the busiest routes .
Public transportation helps to approach the goal, but most of the old town is accessible only by foot, then you really walk just to see Venice and discover all the details.
The main pedestrian routes are marked by yellow signs on buildings.
In the days of high water the town is still visited, are in fact placed in the paths of the walkways.
One more thing: please leave home shoes or bicycle if you never had thought to bring with you in the center use is FORBIDDEN.
THE STEAMER
The transport network in the lagoon is managed dall'ACTV using transportation means such as boats, motor boats and ships.
The tables with timetables and routes are posted on the boat all the wharf, while on the side of the boat you can read the line number.
ACTV tickets you buy the jetties, tobacconists, newsagents and bars, and must be obliterated before getting on board. There are different rates, the place must inquire about the most appropriate to their needs. Imbarcarcatevi not without a ticket on board not sell them, then you risk a penalty.
info: www.actv.it
Gondolas BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
In various places on the Grand Canal is used for ferrying the traditional Venetian boats: the gondolas. In this case, the gondola is defined by "Parade". You may recognize the Stazi, points of embarkation, looking for the green sign that distinguishes them. The Venetians used much this means to move from one part of the city without crossing one of the three bridges over the Grand Canal.
Taxis
Several companies operate the water taxi, speedboats easily identifiable by looking at the window: they have the license number written in black on a yellow stripe.
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La Gondola
The gondola mooring to "rent" can be found in all parts of the city's busiest tourist. The gondoliers, though, if they are not busy with clients, offering their services wherever you encounter them.
The classic gondola ride is certainly very suggestive, but certainly not just economic, to see Venice from a unique point of view, different from that offered by land routes.
A curiosity: do not confuse the gondola with the "Sandolo rowing. Is there an easy way to distinguish, even for tourists: if there is the famous iron are looking forward a gondola, or know that instead of "gondola ride" are doing a "ride Sandolo. If you decide to make the "gondola ride, try to avoid the surf at low tide, the trip would be penalized.
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The districts
Venice is divided into six areas called districts, subdivision back to the origins of the city.
The house numbering is unique to each district, reaching four-digit numbers, except for larger areas not included on islands connected by bridges, since the numbering follows a "spiral", often happen to see two house numbers very different up close.
- Map of Venice
San Marco
The most important of all the districts named after St. Mark, patron saint of the city.
Surrounded by the Grand Canal on all sides except one, always crowded, generous palaces, brings together some of these architectural masterpieces and those historical and cultural icons that have given Venice's reputation has always been universally recognized that characterizes it: square San Marco and the Campanile, the Ducal Palace, San Giorgio Maggiore, the Clock Tower, the Campo Santo Stefano and Palazzo Grassi, and finally the La Fenice theater.
Piazza San Marco and the Rialto are connected by a major shopping street where prevailing luxury and high fashion: the Haberdashers. Two local historians, known throughout the world, are in St. Mark's Bar Caffè Florian el'Harry
San Polo and Santa Croce
These two neighboring districts are the heart and originating in the ancient city is just in Rialto who settled the first inhabitants of what was to become Venice. Here are the Bridge and the Rialto market, the Gothic church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, the eighteenth-century Palazzo Mocenigo el'insolita St James Church Gold.
Characteristic of San Polo is the presence of several "home shops" that used to house even the workplace. In these two sestrieri are many taverns and wine bars where you can enjoy in an informal and relaxed the traditional dishes of Venetian cuisine.
Castle
And 'This is the largest of Venice Sestriere, takes its name from an ancient fort in charge of defense against attacks from the sea and vanished. The area bordering Castello San Marco is full of historical attractions, such as the Riviera degli Schiavoni, where is the famous Bridge of Sighs, the church of Saints John and Paolo and Santa Maria della Pieta.
A Castle are also many important museums and the famous and very luxurious Danieli. The major projects in the area of 'Arsenal were the heart of the industrial era of the Republic of Venice, where fleets were built and armed. Arsenal, now inactive, but still a military zone, you get only the time that houses the Biennale, which in the Arsenale building its headquarters, as well as in gardens.
Cannaregio
Developed in a marshy area where they frequent the reeds, it is in this district who had his house Marco Polo, Titian and Tintoretto. It is bordered on one side with the train station of Saint Lucia, while the opposite side, toward San Marco and Castello is situated in the nucleus from which Venice was born and grew up around that.
In the Ghetto Cannaregio are c or Jewishness, important churches, such as the Madonna of the Garden and the Renaissance Santa Maria dei Miracoli, and the most famous building of the Grand Canal: the Gothic Ca D'Oro. The neighborhood is dotted with shops and boutiques of artigiananto.
Dorsoduro and Giudecca
The name "Dorsoduro" given to the district south of Venice evokes the hard sand dunes on which it is developed, the North is facing the Grand Canal and the southern one, consisting of the scenic shore of Rafts, is on the Giudecca Canal; here is the Squero San Trovaso, the most famous site of production and repair of the gondolas.
The eastern end ends with the Punta della Dogana, the elegant consulates and luxury homes. A Dorsoduro is home to some of the most important museums in Venice, the Peggy Guggenheim, the Academy Gallery and the Museum of Eighteenth Century Venetian, which has its headquarters in the impressive Cà Rezzonico. Do not miss important churches, first of all that dedicated to Santa Maria della Salute. The network of streets and squares is full of shops and restaurants, especially near Campo Santa Margherita, the market square.
Beyond the southern channel, in front of Rafts, is the island of Giudecca, reachable by boat. Leaving behind the past and the industrial area of prisons, the peaceful atmosphere that reigns today on the Giudecca is reminiscent of the smaller countries. Alla Giudecca, in the sixteenth century, Michelangelo spent three years of quiet exile.
On quet'isola remain two Palladian churches: girls and the Redeemer. The island is particularly lively in mid-July, during the celebration of the Redeemer.
Source: BluHOME.IT
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