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Wedding Tips
Language: Italian
Short Story Venice
Venice is one of the few classical honeymoon cities of our world. No other Italian city stand for such romantic and flair as this city. Have dream filled days in a luxury hotel on the Grande Canal; wander through the attractive Lagoon city, glide on a gondola through the small channels of the city and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of a dinner with flair in one of the innumerable Ristorante.
Venice divides its visitors – some swarm from the lagoon city and still has a smile on their face, when you speak of the city of the sea and then yet others complain about the dirt and smell, as well as the irritating tourists with all that daylight robbery that belongs to it going on around Marcus Place.
The irritating tourists are generally day tourists, that for a little money have been carried into the city, where they run after their tourist leader from one tourist attraction to another, cover themselves with over expensive souvenir kitsch & hokum and really only catch a brief fleeting view of beautiful Venice. When we speak of Venice we mean that Venice is much more than just that! Clearly there are corners that do smell uncomfortable, but cities like New York and Hong Kong have those “corners” as well. Also clearly the tourist can get on your nerves, but that is also true in other cities. However as you wander through the little alley ways in the morning or the evening, and stroll over the bridges Venice will bewitch and enchant you. You will sense the romantic breath of this city that so many pairs before you have experienced. The flair of the small cannels with the quite gliding gondolas and the wonderfully formed house facades will pull you into their orbit.
Let the historical gestation of old city palaces and buildings have an effect on you and experience one of the most culturally rich cities of the world. Venice was the middle point of Europe during the middle of the 15th century, 200 years after Marco Polo returned from his distant journey to China. Due to the trade during the middle-ages with the Orient and even further distant China the aristocracy and traders, merchants and business people became very rich. Where much money is, there will art also be sponsored & promoted, and so the most meaningful artists of the Italian middle-ages lived here and created world-renown building and works of art. Here and in Florence was the origin of the renaissance and artists like Canaletto, Cappaccio, Guardi, Giorgoine, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Bellini, Tintoretto, Tizian and Veronese were all at home here. The history of Venice is one of the most glorious histories of the developing European civilisations. One can still sense the brilliance in the alleys of the city.
Venice was originally built upon wooden pillars in the shallow lagoon. The tree trunks were rammed in millions into the ground of the seabed and joined together with bands and framed with tar, sand and lime. In this manner 118 small islands were joined to one another. Today 70,000 inhabitants live here (excluding Mestre of course, which is the industrial area on the mainland that was incorporated in 1929). The city is continuously threatened to be swallowed by the sea. Every fourth day the water covers Marcus Place and threatens the historical building substance of the city. Today the water does not circulate in the city as it did earlier, so that algae and silt build up in the small channels. And that is what eventually causes the uncomfortable smells in the city referred to before. In recent times the fathers of the city have shown pity and compassion and arranged to have the channels cleared of the stinking algae, so that the smell has almost completely vanished.
The confusing network of waterways and the Venetian architecture are often copied. But the copy never comes near to the original. There are only a few cars here – Venice is a pedestrian city with 400 bridges and more than 170 channels. That’s why the most re-known transport medium is the gondola; that is incidentally almost exclusively only used only by the tourists. Apart from that there are the water taxis that you can use to move yourself around or the Vaporetti, the water busses. Freight transport is carried using barges. The main thoroughfare of Venice is the Grand Canal, which is crossed by four bridges and which snakes itself through the city in the form of an s and you should without a doubt let yourself be shipped down it, as did Daniel Craig and Eva Green in Casino Royale. On the banks of the Grand Canal you experience living history overall and you can astound yourself by viewing the buildings of art from the last century, as not much has been changed at all. The Rio de San Luca Canal or the Rialto Bridge which are really beautiful, as is the Marcus Place with the Basilica di San Marco (the Markus Dome) in the evening. An excursion to Burano, a small cosy and dreamy island with colourful mini houses is really worth experiencing.
You can reach Venice using your own car from middle Europe in about ca. 10 hours. You park your car on the Island of Troncetto in an attended garage and then you carry on with the 24 hour ferry into the old city – all is very unproblematic. With the train you can travel directly to Venice and just before arrival into the train station you will enjoy a dreamy panoramic view. Just take care that your target station is called Venezia Santa Lucia, because Venice has two large stations. With cheap airlines like easyjet.com you can reach the airport called Venezia Marco Polo (VCE) by early booking for only a few Euros and by the landing you have a wonderful view of the city. From the airport then you travel on using the train to the lagoon city.
The relatively high costs for accommodation and stay in Venice are not without concern. Accommodation under 100 Euro is simply not available. A one hour journey on a gondola without music costs ca. 130 Euro and a latte macchiato can cost around 10 Euro. However you must not travel around half the world and you have lower transfer costs. Apart from that the city in the lagoon will enthral and take you prisoner. Venice is unique! Look in our Hotel Overview, perhaps your dream honeymoon hotel is to be found there.
Incidentally, it is really irrelevant at which time of year you to go to Venice, because each season in Venice has its own unique allurement and charm. So it is that Venice in winter is wonderfully native and original and in summer blissfully Mediterranean. You should try however to avoid the days of religious celebration. If you decide to take your honeymoon in Venice, you will be surprised – then no location in the world is like Venice.
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