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tuscanlifeedit Aug 1st, 2007 07:19 PM

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.

annw Aug 1st, 2007 08:10 PM

2. Go to Piazza San Marco in the evening and enjoy the orchestras playing.

shirdynerdy Aug 1st, 2007 08:11 PM

2. Order that espresso on St Mark's Square, no matter the cost!

Tim_and_Liz Aug 1st, 2007 08:27 PM

4. try a spritz

5. take the ferry to Burano

annw Aug 1st, 2007 08:39 PM

6. Take a gondola ride!

gshlaw Aug 1st, 2007 08:41 PM

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!

lyb Aug 1st, 2007 08:49 PM

8. just walk and walk and be surprised at the beauty and history at almost every turn!

dandj Aug 1st, 2007 10:22 PM

9. Go look at the mosaic floors in St. Marks Basilica.

Rhea58 Aug 1st, 2007 11:11 PM

10. Take a traghetto

TRSW Aug 1st, 2007 11:22 PM

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

suze Aug 2nd, 2007 07:14 AM

Drink cold white wine for breakfast standing at a marble counter along the sidewalk.

ilana25841 Aug 2nd, 2007 07:37 AM

14. Sit on Peggy Guggenheim's terrace and pretend it's your Palazzo on the Grand Canal.

rialtogrl Aug 2nd, 2007 07:44 AM

15. Be in Piazza San Marco at midnight for the Marangona (bell in the Campanile).

(Suze I really like your idea too.) :)

Tim_and_Liz Aug 2nd, 2007 08:19 AM

16. Take the Secret Itineraries Tour of the Doge's Palace

bashamj Aug 2nd, 2007 09:24 AM

What exactly is a spritz?

Tim_and_Liz Aug 2nd, 2007 11:00 AM

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.

jmpld40 Aug 2nd, 2007 11:19 AM

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.

suze Aug 2nd, 2007 11:42 AM

Go to the post office

luvtotravel Aug 2nd, 2007 11:45 AM

Shop.

plafield Aug 2nd, 2007 11:47 AM

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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