Venice is a unique city in the world, not only for the beauty of its churches and its monuments or for the richness of its artworks, but mainly for its particular morphology and location: in fact, the city, whose shape resembles a fish, rises on an archipelago of about a hundred big and small islands, separated by numerous canals and joined by bridges.
Venice is a “water city”, surrounded and carried through by the water of its lagoon.
Therefore, there aren’t any roads for cars, motorbikes or bicycles, but only lanes, squares, waterways and canals… the city traffic takes place exclusively on pedestrian routes and on water!
For this reason, arriving and getting around in Venice can be difficult if you are visiting the city for the first time…

Public transports

If you don’t like to walk or time is too short then use public transports the ACTV boats links the historic centre and islands of the lagoon.

We suggest to take a ride on the water bus (vaporetto) that goes all along the Grand Canal (boat nr. 1) here faces the great historic palaces now site of museums and exhibitions.

Ticket available at mains boat stop or VE.LA. point.
Timetable. Rates and info on Website Hello Venezia .

Private transports

Certainly the most expensive are private water taxi, motorboats that provide the private service in the lagoon.
Another popular way, beloved by venetians who wants to cross the Grand canal not using one of the four bridges, is the “traghetto” gondola service, those goes back and forth all day long form a side to other of the Grand Canal, it cheap and passenger have to stand. Traghettos pier are San Marcuola, Santa Sofia, San Tomà, San Samuele, Santa Maria del Giglio and Dogana.

Needless to say that the most romantic way to visit the City by water is the famous Gondola, a sort of trademark of the city, not much in use by Venetian in that sense.