Venice

 

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Presentation

Route

Lodging

Masks

Costumes

Boats and Gondolas

Ballade in Venice

Padova

 

 

 

Gondola Venetian

Traditional individual transport is the Venetian gondola, although it is used almost more only by the tourists, or for particular occasions (ceremonies, marriages and burials).

                     

 

            

 

 

Vaporetto

 

The Venetian ones use especially boats buses, called vaporetti, which serve the various islands by furrowing the principal channels.

 

Vaporetti is the plural of vaporetto (Small steamer, which is not any more the case today).

 

 

 

Traghetto

 

Only the gondolas not motorized still frequently used is Traghetti (in the singular : Traghetto).

 

It is large a gondola, service “public” allowing the crossing of the large channel in 7 places deprived of bridge, for a moderate sum.