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    Insight Guides Pocket Venice (Travel Guide eBook)
    Insight Guides Pocket Venice (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Insight Guides Pocket Venice (Travel Guide eBook)

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    Venice is one of the world's most magical and unique destinations, a city where life is lived on the water and getting lost is all part of the fun. Insight Pocket Guide Venice is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that this evocative city has to offer.

    Inside Venice Pocket Guide:
    Where To Go details all the key sights in the city, while handy maps on the cover flaps help you find your way around, and are cross-referenced to the text.

    Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip.

    Perfect Day provides an itinerary of the best things to do in one day in Venice.

    What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from cocktail hour in tucked-away bars to shopping for Venetian masks and activities on the Lido's beaches.

    Essential information on Venice's culture, including a brief history of the country.

    Eating Out covers the city's best cuisine.

    Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants.

    A-Z of all the practical information you'll need.

    About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-color print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travelers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

    'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateAug 5, 2016
    ISBN9781786715753
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      Insight Guides Pocket Venice (Travel Guide eBook) - Insight Guides

      How To Use This E-Book

      Getting Around the e-Book

      This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Venice, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.

      The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Venice, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.

      In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

      Maps

      All key attractions and sights in Venice are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

      Images

      You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Venice. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.

      About Insight Guides

      Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

      Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

      © 2016 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

      Table of Contents

      Venice’s Top 10 Attractions

      Top Attraction #1

      Top Attraction #2

      Top Attraction #3

      Top Attraction #4

      Top Attraction #5

      Top Attraction #6

      Top Attraction #7

      Top Attraction #8

      Top Attraction #9

      Top Attraction #10

      A Perfect Day In Venice

      Introduction

      Geography

      Navigating the city

      Meet the Venetians

      Sustainable tourism

      A Brief History

      Early Venetians

      The rise of the Republic

      Empire building

      Wars and intrigue

      New threats in a Golden Age

      Decline and decadence

      The end of the Republic

      The city today

      Historical landmarks

      Where To Go

      San Marco

      Piazza San Marco

      Basilica di San Marco

      The narthex

      Museo Marciano

      The Treasury and High Altar

      The Pala d’Oro

      Campanile di San Marco

      Piazzetta dei Leoncini

      Torre dell’Orologio

      Procuratie Vecchie and Nuove

      Palazzo Ducale

      The interior

      Piazzetta San Marco

      Museo Correr and Museo Archeologico

      Biblioteca Marciana

      Also in San Marco

      Castello

      Along the waterfront

      The Arsenale

      Museo Storico Navale

      Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni

      Santa Maria Formosa

      Santi Giovanni e Paolo (San Zanipolo)

      Santa Maria dei Miracoli

      Dorsoduro

      The Accademia

      Collezione Peggy Guggenheim

      La Salute

      Dogana

      Zattere

      Giudecca

      The University Quarter

      Ca’ Rezzonico

      San Polo and Santa Croce

      The Rialto

      Ponte di Rialto

      The Rialto markets

      Campo San Polo

      The Frari

      Scuola Grande di San Rocco

      Casa di Carlo Goldoni

      Fondaco dei Turchi

      Ca’ Pesaro

      Cannaregio

      The Ghetto

      Madonna dell’Orto

      Ca’ d’Oro

      Boat trip along the Grand Canal

      Fondaco dei Turchi to the Ca’ d’Oro

      Past the Rialto

      Around the bend

      Ponte dell’Accademia to La Salute

      The islands

      San Giorgio Maggiore

      San Michele

      Murano

      Burano

      San Francesco del Deserto

      Torcello

      The Lido

      What To Do

      Entertainment

      The performing arts

      Venice Film Festival

      Nightlife

      Rialto inns

      Cannaregio bars

      Shopping

      Crafts, masks and costumes

      Glassware

      Sports

      Children’s Venice

      Calendar of events

      Eating Out

      Where to eat

      Venetian cuisine

      Appetisers

      First course

      Main course

      Desserts and cheese

      Meal times

      Specials

      What to drink

      Bars of San Marco

      Reading the Menu

      To Help you Order

      menu reader

      Restaurants

      San Marco

      Castello

      Dorsoduro

      San Polo and Santa Croce

      Cannaregio

      Giudecca

      The other islands

      A–Z Travel Tips

      A

      Accommodation

      Airports

      B

      Budgeting for your trip

      C

      Climate

      Clothing

      Crime and safety (see also Emergencies and Police)

      D

      Driving

      E

      Electricity

      Embassies and consulates

      Emergencies

      G

      Getting there

      Guides and tours

      H

      Health and medical care

      L

      Language

      M

      Maps

      Media

      Money

      O

      Opening times

      P

      Police

      Post offices

      Public holidays

      R

      Religion

      T

      Telephones

      Time

      Tipping

      Toilets

      Tourist information

      Transport

      Travellers with disabilities

      V

      Visa and entry requirements

      W

      Websites, apps and internet

      Y

      Youth hostels

      Recommended Hotels

      San Marco

      Castello

      Dorsoduro

      San Polo, Santa Croce and Cannaregio

      Giudecca

      The Lido, Murano, Burano and Torcello

      Venice’s Top 10 Attractions

      Top Attraction #1

      Anna Mockford and Nick Bonetti/Apa Publications

      The Rialto

      The historic heart of Venice’s commercial quarter is still famed for its markets. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #2

      Anna Mockford and Nick Bonetti/Apa Publications

      Palazzo Ducale

      The splendid former home of the Venetian doges. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #3

      Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

      Collezione Peggy Guggenheim

      One of the best modern art collections in Europe. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #4

      Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

      Scuola Grande di San Rocco

      The interior is decorated with many of Tintoretto’s finest paintings. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #5

      Ros Miller/Apa Publications

      Murano

      This island is world-renowned for the fine glass that has been made here for centuries. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #6

      Anna Mockford and Nick Bonetti/Apa Publications

      Basilica di San Marco

      The magnificent church at the very heart of Venice. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #7

      Anna Mockford and Nick Bonetti/Apa Publications

      Bridge of Sighs

      Links the Palazzo Ducale with the former jail. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #8

      Chris Coe/Apa Publications

      The Accademia

      Home to the magnificent pre-eminent collection of Venetian art from the 14th to 18th centuries. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #9

      Anna Mockford and Nick Bonetti/Apa Publications

      La Salute

      This iconic landmark stands at the entrance to the Grand Canal. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #10

      Anna Mockford and Nick Bonetti/Apa Publications

      The Grand Canal

      The city’s spectacular main artery is lined with old palaces. For more information, click here.

      A Perfect Day In Venice

      9.00am

      Morning market

      Feast your eyes on the fish, fruit and vegetables of the Rialto markets, where stalls have been in business for over 1,000 years. Watch the barges offloading at the quayside, then browse in local delis for spices, coffee and cheeses.

      10.00am

      Grand Canal

      From the Rialto take vaporetto No. 1 in the San Marco/Lido direction. Glide past the parade of palaces and alight at Accademia.

      11.00am

      Gallery visit

      You’re now in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, a haven for art lovers, home to the Accademia and Guggenheim galleries. Explore the largely revamped Accademia, housing the world’s greatest collection of Venetian art, before watching the mesmerising water traffic on the Accademia Bridge.

      1.00pm

      Lunch with a view

      Take your pick from the open-air cafés and restaurants on the Zattere, the panoramic quayside skirting the southern side of the Dorsoduro. For dessert try Gelateria Nico, one of the best ice cream parlours in town.

      2.00pm

      Gentle stroll

      Stretch your legs along the Zattere, popping into the Gesuati church to check out the Tiepolo ceiling. Head to the tip of the peninsula where the Punta della Dogana has been transformed into a cutting-edge contemporary art gallery, then go admire the monumental La Salute basilica.

      3.00pm

      Bellini time

      Hop on a vaporetto to Vallaresso landing stage across the Grand Canal. Pass Harry’s Bar (popping in for a bellini if you can’t resist) and head north to Salizzada San Moisé and Calle Larga XXII Marzo to browse some of the smartest shops in town.

      4.00 pm

      San Marco tea

      Splash out on tea at Caffè Florian in Piazza San Marco, then wander along the Riva degli Schiavoni quayside, taking in the views across to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

      6.30pm

      Quiet drink

      Leave the crowds behind and explore the streets and squares of the Castello region behind the Riva. Join the locals in a bar for an ombrà (glass of wine), Prosecco or spritz (a Venetian aperitif), accompanied by cichetti, tapas-like

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