15 boring Affairs in Venice

Scientists have calculated that in 2030 Venice will become a desert Ghost-town and the new century will meet under water. Hurry up to watch the "Queen of the Adriatic", until it turned into Atlantis.

To see St. Mark's square empty

The magnificent St. Mark's square — the place where the crowd will make you inevitably. Do not give human elements: come here when the sun rolled over the horizon, the restaurants are closing their doors, and tourists flee the room. Better yet – get up at dawn, grab a morning coffee and a wide angle lens and admire the main sights of Venice without witnesses.

When the umbrellas of guides spread out over the heads of onlookers, and the waiters will begin to scurry between the tables, climb the Campanile — the bell tower, which offers wonderful views of the square and the Cathedral. To avoid the risk of the eardrum, get back before the midday bells.





Ride the vaporetto down the Grand canal

Once and for all to fall in love with the Grand canal of Venice, embark on a 40-minute tour on the vaporetto No. 1 from the train station to St. Mark's square. "Unity" goes from 4 am to midnight, and it is best to ride in the late evening or early morning. At this time people less and companions are not to lean over you with a camera to capture the Rialto bridge.





Try cicetti

If Italy as a whole is pizza and pasta, then Venice is cichetti. From local snacks with hundreds of fillings makes you dizzy and meatballs with tuna, and shrimp with polenta, sardines in marinade with onion and salt cod in cream.

Travelers praise Osteria Da Alberto — try it and you brand cicetti of squid with zucchini or boiled cuttlefish. Dinner here will cost from 11 to 20 euros per person. For diner local — Bacareto da Lele — you can eat and drink wine at the table of the wooden barrels or on the steps by the canal in just a couple of euros.



To Listen Vivaldi

The Opera house La Fenice ("Phoenix") to its name deserved. From the XVIII century, it has survived three fires and the last time reborn from the ashes in 2004 to once again amaze the audience with Opera, ballet, symphonic and choral concerts.

If you want to listen to classical music, do not buy tickets from touts clowns on the street. Contact La Societa Veneziana di Concerti — the official organizers of concerts of world performers. And go to the Museum Querini stampalia, on Saturday, closer to five o'clock in the evening – the output of a live orchestra will perform for you a half-hour concert.



Stock up for a picnic at the Rialto market

For thousands of years, the Rialto market wakes up the appetite of everyone who passes by. Even if you do not need to buy, have a look here for the atmosphere. Giant squids and mini-octopuses, tender artichokes and bitter red chicory — here sell local specialties and products for every day.

On the market you'll meet grandmothers with small baskets, emotionally discussing the latest gossip, and chefs of Michelin restaurants, meticulously choosing seafood for stellar dinners.

Come early so the choice was richer. Closer to lunchtime, the sellers of fish rows are collapsed, because the Venetians themselves to buy only those frutti di mare, which will be eaten on the same day.





Join the art in the gardens of Napoleon

In the Park Giardini della Biennale since 1895 Biennale, the annual art exhibit. Russia, France, UK, Germany and 25 other participating countries have built permanent pavilions in the Park Giardini, the rest of the show's vision of beauty on other Venetian art venues.

Even if modern art you do not like, in public gardens, founded by Napoleon, will do. Here is a nice escape from the grueling heat, drink something refreshing in the shade of the trees or even take a NAP under a small arch.

Kayaking

To feel like a local in Amsterdam, hire a bike. Want to be your Venice — rent a kayak. The boat you get the hang of driving in about 15 minutes: feel the size, will understand where unilateral streets, learn to give priority gondoliera.

In the "main artery" of the city traffic is dense, so watch your back — from Motorboats and vaporetti such waves! It is better to go for a ride on the "capillaries". There are also other things to look at – a view from the water is breathtaking, and to steer the kayak much easier than on the Grand canal.





Spend the night in a luxury hotel

The hotel Danieli is known to everyone who admired fatal beauty Angelina Jolie and charming weirdo johnny Depp in the movie "the Tourist". Five-star hotel stands on the waterfront of Riva degli Schiavoni. The interior is the work of French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon in cooperation with the Academy of arts of Venice: so chic apartments of the Palazzo, Dandolo became the modern Deluxe rooms. However, the prices then become: for a double room will pay from 475 euros.





Palazzo Sant'angelo Sul Canal Grande is right on the Grand canal, between Rialto bridge and St. Mark's square. The hotel has its own pier, and rode the gondola, you will approach right to the entrance. Can walk on foot, because the main attractions here at hand. Double room costs 300 euros per day.

To watch the work of glassblowers on Murano island

If you stay in Venice for at least a week, take a trip to the neighbouring Islands. Start with a known master glassblowers of Murano. Just don't settle for "free" excursions to the island from cunning shill: it's gonna be a tour of the shops, where the glass baubles to sell to you at exorbitant prices.

Instead, take the water bus, which for 7.5 euros will take you to the Islands of Murano and explore for yourself. Watch the work of glassblowers at any local factory or in the Museo del Vetro. It will tell you how in the fourteenth century, masters were forbidden to export from the island of the secrets of the technology, and in return was allowed to get her daughters married noblemen.





To take notes on rainbow background on the island of Burano

Take the vaporetto to the island of Burano, which from a distance dazzles with all the colors of the rainbow. Locals have long been in the sea for fish, and hundreds of boats were moored to the quay. According to legend, the owners began to paint houses with bright colors so the fishermen could see them from a distance even in dense fog and in time to drop anchor.

On Burano are no two identical houses nearby. It's funny that the islanders not to paint the facade in the color that you like: first in the town Council needs to figure out whether he fits into the palette of the street. Come and see that with the colors on Burano island all right!





To be alone on the island of Torcello

The island of Torcello and pulls to call "the Venice version 1.0". From here began the colonization of pieces of land in the middle of the Adriatic. Pioneer the times of the dark Ages not to be envied — they lived in the swamps, and the neighbors they had mosquitoes the size of a fist. Today everything looks much better, although Torcello is still left the way Venice was ten centuries ago.

On a tour of the entire island, enough hours. The main thing here is the charming Cathedral of all Venetian archipelago Cattedrale di Torcello, which is also called the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. Don't miss the Byzantine mosaics of the XI-XII centuries, depicting the Madonna and child and last judgement. Another hour will take lunch at the restaurant Locanda Cipriani, where Hemingway wrote the novel "across the river, in the shade of the trees".



Swim in the beaches of Lido

Just 20 minutes from Central Venice by vaporetto and you are in the archipelago of Venice. This chain of sand Islands is especially popular among those who travel with young children or prefer a city landscape peaceful nature. In the Lido is better to go at least for five days, enough to drive a bike on the promenade, stroll through the shady streets and to lie on the beach. Furthermore, living here is cheaper than in the historic centre of Venice.

After five nights on the Islands is becoming very much at home. Local residents return from work and settle in the bars where you know everyone by name, and guests are greeted with Italian hospitality. Come here in September to casually encounter with Hollywood stars, who flock to the Lido for the annual Venice film festival.





To look for thrills on the island Powella

Island Pavela is considered one of the most horrible places on the planet. The nickname "the Cursed earth" and "Gates of hell" he has earned because in ancient times were exiled here infected with the plague. A hundred years ago there was built a hospital for the mentally ill, over which the chief physician conducted horrific experiments. Patients complained that they see on the island of the haunted, and soon the doctor went mad and jumped from the tower of the hospital.

The island is closed to the public, the transport doesn't go there, and the fishermen are afraid to even come close to the ominous piece of land. But if you ask, then about 200 euros someone local agrees to deliver the lovers of mysticism in the damn place.

Buy Souvenirs on the island of Giudecca

The Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo in just 8 euros you will be shown a gorgeous collection of historic costumes. To see where these outfits sew, go to the island of Giudecca. In the local prison, the walls of the former monastery of women make costumes not only for the Museum, but for sale or rental at the time of the Venetian carnival. Even from their hands come the decorations, sequined and brocade bags pads.

On Thursdays at the entrance to the prison set the trays where they sell fresh fruits and vegetables grown in a local garden, as well as cosmetics, jewelry and other little things that are making prisoners. If you want to bring from Venice Souvenirs with unusual history, you here.



In the old days, the Venetians wore masks in order to feel freer. Could safely mock the strong and rich win the hearts of beautiful women, get into adventures and even to commit crimes. No wonder carnival is almost 200 years has been banned. In 1979, he finally became officially operational and was turned into a tourist attraction. Now every February in Venice comes a half a million people to dress up, disguise and partake of the forbidden freedom.

 

 

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Drink wine on the waterfront

After a day walking in Venice and the lagoon Islands you want to relax and cool off. The city is full of bars with access to water.





Look at El Chioschetto on the promenade of the Zattere, Vincent bar at the edge of the shady Parco del Rimembranze or Taverna del Campiello Remer on a tiny square near the Grand canal. Bad wine in Venice is hard to find, so a romantic evening in the fabulous scenery behind the glass-the other is guaranteed to you.

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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