Day trips Venice - Italy Driving Guide

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DAY TRIPS VENICE

THIS TRIP BEGINS and CONCLUDES IN ROME unless otherwise indicated by our client - DIFFERENT RATES WILL BE APPLIED IF DAY TRIP DOESN'T START FROM ROME CITY.

We will pick you up at your hotel or wherever you wish by our air conditioned vehicles. Our skilled multilingual driver guides will show you the most interesting places of the city / area by giving you the key information from the car without coming within sites.- Please….take vision of the present trip and relevant program

DAY TRIP TO VENICE (16 Hrs from 06:00 A.M.)

Driving from Rome through Lazio,Umbria,tuscany,Emilia Romagna and Veneto Regions, we will reach VENICE in about 5:30 hrs. Stop at Piazzale Roma where you can hire a licensed guide for a private 3 Hrs tour to visit: Rialto Bridge, San Mark's Square and " La Fenice " theatre Time for lunch and shopping (Murano Glasses) and back to the car meeting point at 04:00 P.M. for coming back to Rome.


OUR FLEET

Mercedes E Class or equivalent up to 3 pax	Mercedes Vito/Viano or equivalent up to 5 pax	Mercedes Sprinter or equivalent up to 8 pax
890 €	940 €	1040 €
Guide Service Price (if requested) Euro 240 for all partecipants for 3 Hrs. Accepted payments: U.S. Dollars,Euro, Traveller's cheques. Prices include driver guide for whole tour

VENICE

Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in northern Italy, the capital of the region Veneto, and has a population of 271,251 (census estimate January 1, 2004). Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area (population 1,600,000). Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Bridges", and "The City of Light". It is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
The city stretches across 118 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers. The population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; around 62,000 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the large frazione of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 live on other islands in the lagoon.

The Venetian Republic was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain and spice trade) and art in the 13th century .
Venice is world-famous for its canals. It is built on an archipelago of 118 islands formed by about 150 canals in a shallow lagoon. The islands on which the city is built are connected by about 400 bridges. In the old center, the canals serve the function of roads, and every form of transport is on water or on foot. In the 19th century a causeway to the mainland brought a railway station to Venice, and an automobile causeway and parking lot was added in the 20th century. Beyond these land entrances at the northern edge of the city, transportation within the city remains, as it was in centuries past, entirely on water or on foot. Venice is Europe's largest urban car free area, unique in Europe in remaining a sizable functioning city in the 21st century entirely without motorcars or trucks.
The gondola is a traditional Venetian rowing boat. Gondolas were for centuries the chief means of transportation within Venice and still have a role in public transport, serving as traghetti (ferries) over the Grand Canal. Their primary role, however, is to carry tourists on rides at established prices.
Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal square of Venice.
The buildings around the Piazza are, counter-clockwise from the Grand Canal, the Doge's Palace, St Mark's Basilica, St Mark's Clocktower, the Procuratie Vecchie, the Napoleonic Wing of the Procuraties, the Procuratie Nuove, St Mark's Campanile and Loggetta and the Biblioteca Marciana. Most of the ground floor of the Procuraties is occupied by cafés, including the Caffè Florian
The Rialto Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Rialto) is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice. It is the oldest bridge across the canal and probably the most famous in the city.
Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri) is one of many bridges in Venice. It's made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), and built between 1600 and 1603.