TRAVEL:
COMING TO VENICE
By Plane:
There are two airports
near Venice: Venice (Aereoporto Marco Polo) and Treviso.
If you land in Venice
Airport (IATA code: VCE) the fastest way to arrive to Venice is by bus.
There are two well working shuttle services from the airport to Venice
- Piazzale Roma (travel time about 30 minutes):
ATVO (blue coloured busses),
departures every 20-30 minutes.
ACTV (local, orange coloured),
departures every 30 minutes.
More information
are available at the Aeroporto Marco
Polo web site.
Low cost companies
operating in Venice: Volareweb
, Easyjet
Also close to Venice
is Treviso (IATA code: LIPH). There is a Ryanair shuttle bus to
Venice (travel time about one hour).
More information are
available at the Aeroporto di Treviso
web site.
Low cost companies
operating in Treviso: Ryanair
By Train:
Travel information
are available at the Italian
Railways web site. Note that there are two stations in Venice: Venezia-Mestre
and Venezia Santa Lucia. You have to get off at Venezia-Santa Lucia
which
is the second one, after a long bridge crossing the lagoon of Venice built
by the Austrians to linl Venice to the mainland.
By Car:
We warmly reccommend
people not to come by car: the main reason is that you may park
your car in private garages that are usually full and expensive. Moreover
you won't definitely need a car in Venice.
Getting around Venice
The guesthouse (Domus Civica) is close to Piazzale Roma:
Google Earth coordinates of the entrance of the guesthouse
are:
45º 26' 16.12'' N,
12º 19' 24.10'' E
If you come by bus from the airport you have to get off
at Piazzale Roma (here's where cars have to stop in Venice).
If you come by train you have to get off at Venezia
Santa Lucia.
From Piazzale Roma or the railway Station you may reach
the guest house on foot: it takes about five minutes (see map).
Public transport is rather expensive in Venice (a
one hour ticket costs 6,50 euros).
Unfortunately the XXXXXXX increased recently the una tantum
fare for the card to get the monthly ticket from 8 euros to 40 euros, so
that those who wish to have a monthly ticket have to pay 40 euros for the
card plus 28 euros for the monthly ticket (and queue half an hour at the
ticket office).
This year we suggest the participants to make good exercise walking
and cross the Grand Canal either at Santa Lucia, Rialto or Accademia
bridges or use the gondola service (traghetto 50 cents).
If you still wish to have a monthly ticket you may still
get it at the ACTV ticket office in Piazzale
Roma (looking at the bridge you came from, it is a small building on your
right, between you and the Grand Canal). You have to bring
1) a passport size photo
2) a photocopy of your Identity Card.
You just have to fill an application form and you'll be
given a temporary card (the one that costs you 40 euros). With that card
you may purchase a monthly ticket for 28 euros.
Those wise fortunates that bought the card last year need only to pay the
monthly ticket.
Google Earth coordinates of the ACTV ticket office are
45º 26' 18.57'' N
12º 19' 07.32'' E
The coordinates of Line 1 stop in Piazzale Roma are:
45º 26' 21.70'' N
12º 19' 05.66'' E
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