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Article: Where to Stay THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- September 10, 2006
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THE FIRST TIME
I'm lucky enough to have lived in Venice and when friends came to
stay who'd never been to the city the first thing I did with them
was the same - not St Marks, but a trip by vaporetto (water-bus)
along the Grand Canal. Cars, taxis or buses drop you at Piazzale
Roma, a drab foretaste of the world's most beautiful city. But push
down to the busy waterfront and look for the No 1 or No 82 boats.
Then make sure they're going the right way - down the Grand Canal,
not round the back of the docks. Buy a 5-euro ticket (or 72-hour pass
for 25 euros) and settle back for the perfect introduction to the
city. Come at night and the procession of palaces and other Venetian
vignettes is ...