100 Best Things to do in Venice
I do hope to get this started. Especially since I made an awful blooper on another Venice thread today.
I'll start with an easy pick: 1. Ride the front of the vaporetto down the Grand Canal. |
2. Go to Piazza San Marco in the evening and enjoy the orchestras playing.
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2. Order that espresso on St Mark's Square, no matter the cost!
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4. try a spritz
5. take the ferry to Burano |
6. Take a gondola ride!
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Take the vaporetto across to San Giorgio, then pay the friar a couple of euros to ride up the elevator to the top of the bell tower and enjoy the most incredible panoramic view of Venice available anywhere!
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8. just walk and walk and be surprised at the beauty and history at almost every turn!
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9. Go look at the mosaic floors in St. Marks Basilica.
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10. Take a traghetto
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11. Get lost, find your bearings, get lost again...... You may get lost, but there are no worries of being hit by a car, a bus or as in most of Italy, a Vespa!
12. Most of all, enjoy the city when it at its best, early evening after all the daytrippers have left the city. Once the crowds have left, Venice is truely magical. Tom |
Drink cold white wine for breakfast standing at a marble counter along the sidewalk.
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14. Sit on Peggy Guggenheim's terrace and pretend it's your Palazzo on the Grand Canal.
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15. Be in Piazza San Marco at midnight for the Marangona (bell in the Campanile).
(Suze I really like your idea too.) :) |
16. Take the Secret Itineraries Tour of the Doge's Palace
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What exactly is a spritz?
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spritz recipe:
Ingredients: 2 fingers of dry white wine, ideally a little bubbly prosecco (nothing fancy) 1 finger of the aperitif of choice (Select, Aperol, Campari, or Cynar) splash of mineral water (fizzy or naturale) With Campari or Cynar add little slice of lemon. (Some bars drop in a green olive.) With Aperol or Select, add a slice of orange. |
17. Get lost on one of the more residential islands and away from the tourists. See how the Italians live their everyday lives and find some really great authentic, local restaurants.
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Go to the post office
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Shop.
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19. Go to Tonolo, in Dorsoduro (3764 in Crosera San Pantalon, Salizzada S.Pantalon) and buy some outrageous pastry, find a nook or bench by a canal and devour!
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