Trip to Venice
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Trip to Venice
We will be taking a trip to Venice in the late summer, early fall. I've already seen recommendations re: hotels and will take heed. My question is: what "day" side trips (islands, areas around Venice) do you recommend. We will have 8 full days in Venice, but may want to take an excursion. I do not want to rent a car, so am looking for a guided day tours....any must see's?
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Another neat day-trip is Aquilea, Northeast of Venice and about an hour or so by train in the direction of Trieste. This was a late Roman-era community that was sacked by Atilla the Hun. Atilla burned the Duomo to the ground. Over the years it was rebuilt. About a century ago, the medieval floor was removed and the early-Christian mosaic floor was uncovered from the ashes of the original church that Atilla burned. Odd preservation technique, but excellent 1700 year-old mosaics. There are a lot of Roman-era ruins, and an excellent archeological museum that has the remains of a Roman galley. The story has it that the Aquileans that escaped Atilla's rampage escaped to some islands to the Southwest and founded Venice.
You need to take a bus from the nearest Railroad station. I think it was Domazzano, but my memory here is foggy.
You need to take a bus from the nearest Railroad station. I think it was Domazzano, but my memory here is foggy.
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We were in Venice this summer (our third time there) and stayed a week. We did a day trip to Asolo, one to Padua, one to the islands of Torcello and Burano, and our best -- a full day trip to Chioggia. We loved it -- a sort of poor working man's Venice.
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