Visit
VENICE FOR A DAY
From our B&B in Marghera take in Piazza S. Antonio bus line 6 or 6L arriving at the terminus of Piazzale Roma. From here you can take the line 1 or 2 vaporetto, which makes us anticipate the Grand Canal with a breathtaking view on the houses, museums and Venetian palaces that are reflected. We go down at Rialto, where on our left there is the famous Rialto Bridge. Descended from the landing stage, go straight ahead of us, we go in the "Mercerie", where once lay any goods produced, and now instead of the street lined with designer stores. Following the path you arrive in Piazza San Marco, where you can admire the the Basilica of San Marco, the Doge's Palace, the Marciana National Library and the Campanile di San Marco called by the Venetians "El Paron de Casa", the Old and New Procuratie that wrap on three sides of the Piazza San Marco, the Clock Tower at the summit where the Moors mark the hours with their hammers beating on a large bell and the Piazzetta dei Leoncini.
By going to the Basilica of San Marco Basin and the columns of San Marco and San Teodoro, Venice's patron saints, we see the Ducal Palace and behind the palace from the bridge to the left you can see the famous Bridge of Sighs..
From here a splendid panorama with the Island of San Giorgio, the Punta della Dogana and the church of Our Lady of Health..
It can, retracing the "Mercerie", returning to the Rialto Bridge and from the Campo San Bortolomio along the famous “Strada Nova” one of the most important streets and wide of Venice and return to Piazzale Roma.
Arrived at Campo Santi Apostoli we enter this lively street, full of Venetians and tourists and lined with countless shops and restaurants, you cross the "salizada" Santa Sofia, San Felice, Santa Fosca coming to Ca D'Oro in gothic style where It houses the Galleria Franchetti. Continuing we arrive in Rio Terà San Leonardo, where you are in the middle of the colorful banquet of fruits and vegetables available every day.
At the foot of the famous Bridge of the Spires, spanning the Cannaregio Canal, turn right after 50 meters, passing under the arch you can visit the old and new Jewish quarter, while continuing straight, from the Guglie Bridge, you get to Campo San Geremia with the eponymous chiesa are kept numerous works and the remains of Saint Lucia from Syracuse, to whom the church is also dedicated, Palazzo Labia headquarters of the RAI in the Veneto region, and you enter the last section called “Lista di Spagna” too ' it lively with various banquets of Venetian souvenir.
You get to Ponte degli Scalzi with the homonym church and then right you see the Saint Lucia train station and you get to Piazzale Roma through the modern Constitution Bridge, better known as the Calatrava Bridge, named after the architect who he designed it.
Our tourist, walk, can do the opposite route, starting from the "Strada Nova" to Piazza San Marco, then return to Piazzale Roma with boat, always taking the line 1 or 2 to Rialto.
Marghera, which stops in Piazza S. Antonio, cross the Square itself, take Via Rossarol and a few steps back to our B&B.