Information on Venice, Italy
By Car: Venice is accessible by car via the A4 highway (Turin-Milan-Trieste). At Mestre the highway connects with a super-highway, 11
kilometers in length (via Ponte della Libertà & Liberty Bridge), that
one traverses to reach the lagoon. With the car, however, one cannot go beyond
Piazzale Roma, where there is pay parking. Another way of reaching Venice is
to leave the car in the Mestre area and use public buses, which guarantee
excellent connections with Piazzale Roma.
By Plane: The airport of Venice/Tessera, the Marco Polo, is located 13 kilometers from the city and is served by most large international airlines.
By Train: The Venice train station is called Santa Lucia and is located at the S. Lucia Quay, near the final stretch of the Grand Canal. It is served daily by Intercity and Eurocity trains. The Mestre station, on terra firma, is found in Piazzale Favretti.
In Venice one can take a very normal taxi (Radio Taxi's number is 041/
5237774) or one can rent a car. The only public means available for traveling in the
center, however, are the canals: via water taxis (in service 24 hours out of 24), vaporetti, and traditional gondolas. The vaporetti and passenger-bearing speedboats can
traverse only the largest canals, including the Grand Canal. Boats and gondolas, though, can insinuate themselves into the narrowest waterways and are
advised for those who want to preserve a particularly romantic memory of the city.
Connections with the Lido (beach) and nearby islands are also guaranteed.