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.
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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