VENICE TOURIST INFORMATION
In this section we offer a selection of links
to essential Venice tourist sites that can help you plan your trip to Venice.
All links to external Venice tourist information sites open in a new window
– just close them to return. We also highlight some good Venice tourist
guides – all of which you’ll find in our holiday
rental apartments.
This page links to general sources of tourism information for
Venice, Italy. Check out the buttons on the left for links to more specific
topics such as Venice history,
the Venice Carnival,
as well as some glorious photos
of Venice taken by the supertalented Patrick Harrison.
Venice tourism information –
Venice for Visitors
Durant Imboden is an expert on European travel
and his
Venice
for visitors is the best independent source of information about Venice
on the web in English. You'll find more than 70 feature articles on Durant's
lively site. You may find of particular interest his article
"Home
away from home", about the simple pleasures and financial advantages
of
self-catering accommodation. Or enjoy his articles
about the
ghetto
and
Madonna
dell'Orto, two landmark sites in our local area.
Venice tourist office
The
official
Venice tourist office site, run by the APT (
Azienda di Promozione Turistica
di Venezia), is fairly colourless and functional, but it links out to
much other useful information and is thoroughly maintained.
Tourist travel information
- VENICECard
In 2003 the city authorities and transport
corporation introduced the
Venice card,
which offers packages of unlimited travel, entry to some main museums (and
public toilets), and the add-on of the waterbus journey from Marco Polo airport
to the city. It comes in two flavours,
blue (no
museums) and
orange (some main museums
included). We have looked at prices of individual items within the
package, and it is clear that there are
no dramatic
savings to be had by buying the card – as with all such packages,
it depends on you doing everything you intended to do. However, if you
buy
it over the internet before you go, you are more likely to make savings
(it costs a few euros less), and however you buy it, it will save finding
ticket offices and queuing while you are in Venice.
Online tourism guide for Venice – TimeOut
London's
Time Out publishing network produces a compelling rival guidebook to Dorling
Kindersley; the
online
version reflects many of its special strengths, most notably lots of current
information about entertainment, nightlife and restaurants.
Venice tourist attractions – InVeniceToday
This
privately
run portal offers a good photo tour, links to museums and a restaurant
guide among other attractions.
Currency converter
If you're interested
in converting dollars to euros, or any other currency to your own, the
Oanda
FX Converter website site can meet pretty much every need you could imagine.
You'll
find this guide and many other attractive books in each of our two
Venice
holiday rental apartments; if you're planning to stay elsewhere, you might
want to
buy
it from amazon.co.uk or
amazon.com.
If
you've landed on this page directly from a web search, why not check out our
self-catering accommodation
in a Venice house, or our self-catering
apartment with a view of one of Venice’s grandest canals ...
Maps
See our
Venice
maps page for an overview map of Venice as well as links to online streetmaps
and other Venice geographical information.
Weather
What's the best time of year for you to go to Venice? The
Weather.com
site gives you a month by month overview of temperatures and rainfall. If you
want to know what the weather is doing in Venice today, or this week, see the
Weather
Underground site. It even supplies historical weather information. You could
choose a day in the middle of your holiday and check the records for the last
few years. Gaisma.com can give you
sunrise
and sunset times in Venice for today and the months ahead.
Tides
Tidal
predictions for today from the municipal centre devoted to this peculiarly
Venetian focus of attention.
For more tourist information about the location in Venice of our two
holiday apartments to rent, see our section on Cannaregio or click on the links on the left.
Which
book is good to take as a general tourist guide to Venice? We equip our rentals
with the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guide to
Venice and the Veneto, as it is the best all-rounder, with excellent,
clear maps of the city's narrow streets, and great pictorial explanations of
the major attractions.
