Thursday, March 18, 2010

Venice – The Best Photos of the Bridge of Rialto in the Big Channel

A selection of the Best Photos of the Bridge of Rialto, in the Big Channel of Venice, one of the principal tourist attractions that is a visit forced in your trip to Venice.


Rialto bridge in Venice, Italy originally loaded by Shaun Dunmall.

Evening you go out at Rialto Bridge, Venice originally loaded by Eric Johnson.
The Rialto Bridge, Venice originally loaded by Cathal Hoare.
Put I gave Rialto, Venice originally loaded by Justin.
Venice, Put say Rialto originally loaded by McAzadi.

Gondola and The Rialto, Venice originally loaded by Marshall Ward. Tags: best photos, best pictures, Big Channel, images, better photos, better venecia photos, rialto bridge, tourism, Venice, to travel, trips
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Venice – Excursion of one day with visit to the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello

Isla de Murano in the Lagoon of Venice

Isla de Murano in the Lagoon of Venice

Evaluation: *** very Advisable

When trips to Venice, in Italy, if you have a stay of three days planned, it is advisable that you dedicate one of them to do an excursion for the islands of the lagoon of Venice.

In this respect, I am going to propose to you an excursion that will allow you to visit the most important islands of the Lagoon of Venice, Murano, Burano and Torcello, so that you would have left hanging to visit the island of Lido.

A good starting point for this excursion would be to go out of the station of vaporettos of Railway, placed along with the Train station of Saint Lucia. Here you can take a vaporetto of the lines 41 ó 42 that will take you the first island of our excursion, that of Murano.

Stop of vaporettos of Railway along with the Station of Saint Lucia in Venice

Stop of vaporettos of Railway along with the Station of Saint Lucia in Venice

In this trip, the vaporetto will do a stop in the very near island of San Michele, which is occupied exclusive by the cemetery of Venice.

On having come to the island of Murano, bend in the first one of his stops, that of Colonna, already to visit the island on foot. During this walk, you will have time to visit some Murano glass factory, even the Museum of the Glass, the church of Santa Maria and Donato, with his spectacular Byzantine mosaic. And, of course, to cover the innumerable shops with products made with the famous glass.

The following stage in this excursion is the visit of the island of Burano. We will take the line LN at the station of vaporettos of Faro, which will take us straight to the island of Burano.

The walk along Burano will allow us to enjoy the big beauty of this fishermen's small island, with his coloring houses, and where also we will see the church of San Martino Vescovo, with his spectacular sloping tower of the belfry.

Channel in the Island of Burano in the Lagoon of Venice - Italy

Channel in the Island of Burano in the Lagoon of Venice - Italy

Finally, and like last stage, from the station of vaporettos of Burano we will cross to the opposite island, the small islet of Torcello, where we will be able to visit the Byzantine cathedral of Santa Maria of the Asunción, one of the biggest and most ancient of the lagoon of Venice, as well as his adjacent Byzantine church of Dark Saint.

Byzantine church of Dark Saint in the island of Torcello in Venice

Byzantine church of Dark Saint in the island of Torcello in Venice

Eye to the schedule, since both churches can only be visited until 6 p.m. (from November until February), until 5 p.m., in what it might be interesting to us to do the excursion to Torcello rather than the walk along Burano.

Now we must return to the vaporetto that will cross us again to Burano, where we will take another vaporetto to return to Venice.

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Venice – Tour of the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace in the Square of San Marcos

Interior alley of the Bridge of the Sighs in the Ducal Palace of Venice

Interior alley of the Bridge of the Sighs in the Ducal Palace of Venice

A very advisable visit when in your trip to Venice you go to the Ducal Palace of the Square of San Marcos is the tour of the Secret Itineraries. It is a question of a visit guided in groups of approximately 15-25 persons by different stays of the Chancellery that have been protagonists of the darkest history of the Republic of Venice.

The tour of the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace has to save himself with advance, being the visits guided in Italian, French and English, and comes to extend one hour and a quarter.

The visit begins for the bedrooms of the Notary of the Palace Duca l, who was doing the secretary's functions of the Palace, then to go to the Office of the Chancellor, equivalent to the General File. After rising for a stairs, it goes over to the big secret Room of the Chancellery, where during the Republic of Venice the magistrates were doing secret meetings.

From here, one enters the most interesting area of the visit, the Chamber of the Tortures, in which there attracts attention the rope that hangs by the roof and that was used to hold the dolls of the tortured ones. Asímismo, there are seen the cells where Giacomo Casanova was when he was a prisoner in the Ducal Palace of Venice.

After happening for the rooms that exist in the attic, at a height of Put della Paglia, where weapon of the XVIth century can be seen, it goes over to the Room of the Inquisitors, whose roof is decorated by works of Tintoretto realized in 1567.

The tour of the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace ends in the Lounge of the Council of the Ten, to which it goes over after crossing a secret secret alley after a wooden framework.

The visit schedule to the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace is the following one:

  • visit guided in Italian: 9,30 hours and 11,10 hours
  • visit guided in English: 9,55 hours, 10,45 hours and 11,35 hours.
  • visit guided in French: 10,20 hours and 12 hours.

The price of the tour for the Secret Itineraries is of 16 euros (2010) and 10 euros the entry reduced for, for example, children up to 14 years or students up to 29 years. The updated information and the details of the tariffs you find them in the official web of the Ducal Palace.

The reservation for the tour of the Secret Itineraries, which is essential to do it with advance, can be done in the web of the Ducal Palace. Once realized, when you come to Venice and go to the Ducal Palace, you do not have to wait for the possible tail that should exist in the entry for the visit of the palace, but you have to go to the box offices to join to the corresponding group to do the itineraries.

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

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On having planned your trip to Venice, or to other cities of Italy, the comparador of prices of hotels Hotelscombined allows you to look for the best offers of prices of hotels on having done a simultaneous search in tens webs of agencies online and of chains hotels. As soon as the best offer was selected, you do the reservation of the hotel straight in the agency online elected.

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Venice – I Walk in gondola with musical serenade along the channels of the city

In a trip to Venice, in Italy, to mount in a gondola is one of the attractions that more attracts attention of all the tourists.

Although you have diverse ways of satisfying this interest, like hiring a walk in gondola to make a trip for the channels of Venice, or the simplest and cheap version, cross the Big Channel in a gondola Traghetto, undoubtedly the most local image is that of the walk in gondola under the tuning of a musical serenade.

This type of walk in gondola is done in group, so that every four gondolas with tourists there is a gondola with the musicians with guitar and/or accordion and the baritone, who during the trip is interpreting the typical songs Italians, since O Sole Mío.

This walk in gondola with musical serenade usually begins in a point typical of the Big Channel, as it can be the Square of San Marcos or the Bridge of Rialto, then to cover small channels, so that the proper walls of the buildings facilitate the audition of the serenade.

The walk in gondola with musical serenade comes to last between 35 and 40 minutes, and the price of the walk (without transfer from the hotel) comes to be between 40 and 45 euros. The schedules are usually, from November until March, at 15:30, and from April until October, at 18:30 and at 19:30.

If you are interested in enjoying this typical tourist attraction of Venice, the musical serenade covering the channels in gondola, you can do it straight in the local agencies of Venice. But to assure the availability of this excursion to you and in a concrete day, you can hire also online the walk in gondola with serenade.

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Venice – Spiral staircase in Palazzo Contarini of the Bovolo

Spiral staircase of Palazzo Contarini of the Bovolo of Venice

Spiral staircase of Palazzo Contarini of the Bovolo of Venice

One of the corners that can attract attention of you during your trip to Venice, in Italy, is that of the spiral staircase of Palazzo Contarini of the Bovolo.

This small Venetian palace of the XVth century that is placed in Field Manin, close to the Bridge of Rialto, in the Big Channel of Venice, owes his relevancy to the curious spiral staircase that is located in his external front.

The above mentioned spiral staircase presents a succession of arches that get together with the arches of the galleries of his different plants. The result is an original and beautiful design, although Palazzo Contarini is surrounded by an environment of slightly attractive buildings.

The name of this palace of Venice is due to the fact that it was the family Contarini the one that entrusted his construction. And the Bovolo denomination comes for his meaning of snail.

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