You’re all likely familiar with the floating city of Venice. If you’d like to see it for yourself, then you may be wondering what to include in your itinerary beyond just the main square and the cathedral. What should you see in Venice? We’ll go over exactly that today.
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What can you buy in Venice?
Are you going to Venice and want to stock up on some souvenirs? We’ve got just the guide for you. We’ll go over the best little ways to preserve the memory of your holidays today.
12 best free attractions in Venice
As you may imagine, Venice is not cheap. With the insane tourist counts that the city has to deal with every day, lots of money has to be put into running the services and maintaining Venice itself. But what if you’re on a very tight budget but you still want to see it? Today, we’ll show you that it’s still totally possible to see Venice with very few additional costs beyond the essentials. Let’s take a look at Venice on a budget!
How many passengers fit on one gondola in Venice?
Gondolas are one of the most famous images of Venice. We’d say that, just like a visit to Caffe Florian, a gondola ride is a must in Venice. If you’re going to Venice with your whole family or a group of friends and you’d like to know whether you can just get a gondola for all of you, we might have bad news for you. How many people can fit on one gondola in Venice?
Guide to water buses in Venice
As you may imagine, there are no cars in Venice. Instead, any travelling is done via the city’s canals. As such, Venice has developed a transportation system to aid tourists and locals alike in getting around the floating city. There are small ferries roaming around, water taxis take you from the airport to St Mark’s Square and water buses can port you to any site in the city. Today, we’ll cover the last option.
Piazza San Marco, or the St Mark’s Square in Venice
St Mark’s Square in Venice is the most important place of the city, home to most of the interesting attractions here. Did you know, however, that Saint Mark wasn’t the original patron of Venice? Further, that Venice stole him in the most literal sense of the words? Today, we’ll go over all things Piazza San marco, both the history of St Mark’s Square and what it currently offers.
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The Grand Canal in Venice: bridges, depth and its attractions
As you may already know, Venice has no roads and no vehicles of any kind. Instead, it’s a city of canals. If you know anything about Venice, then the first canal to come to your mind is the Grand Canal (Canal Grande). But what about it? What is it about? How deep is it? Let’s take a brief look.
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Caffè Florian in Venice
There aren’t many places like this one in Europe. Vienna has its Central Café, Budapest has the famous New York Café, but that’s about it. And we’d argue that Venice has something even better. Caffè Florian is one of the world’s most beautiful and oldest coffee houses, located in the beautiful Piazza San Marco and in operation since 1720. You, too, can have a coffee in the same place as Goethe and Casanova. How much does coffee cost at Caffè Florian? What is its history? Let’s go over that today.
Guide to St Mark’s Basilica
Though the basilica in Venice is not the largest, it’s certainly one of the most beautiful and well-known temples in the world. Located on the St Mark’s Square, it’s one of the biggest attractions in the floating city, alongside the Grand Canal and the Rialto Bridge. Why is it one of the most famous sites in Venice? Do you need tickets for it? We’ll go over that and more today in today’s guide to St Mark’s Basilica.
Venetian Arsenal – the largest pre-industrial industrial production centre
Though Venice is no stranger to anyone and tens of millions of tourists visit it annually, there are places which are completely foreign to the vast majority of them. The Venetian Arsenal is one such place. If you’re looking for a place irrevocably linked to its rich history, you may just want to steer off the beaten track and see the Arsenal too.
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