I had a wonderful weekend this week. Obviously spend a holdiay in Venice is my dream since i was in school. Yesterday was really my dream came true. One day in venice is of course not enough for me. But i had a preety moment in Venice, walking all the way from train station to San Marco, the most beautiful place in Venice is the most wonderful moment in mylife.
We ( A group of us - Ij, Fairoz, Rud, and myself) departed from Firenze at 8.37am by Trainitalia that cost me about euro43.25 ( Return ticket). And the train took us almost 3 and 1/2 hours to reach Venize Train Station. Suprisingly, we found few malaysian spending their weekend in Venice. Small world.....Anyway, before we started our "journey", of course we spotted few locations where to reach 1st. We planned to walk to San Marco and came back by water bus.
Yesterday, we covered almosy 60% of Venice. Really2 tired, exhausted and worth it.
Introduction of VeniceVenice or Venizia is the capital of the region of Veneto and the same province of the same name in Italy. Its population is almost 280,000 as of estimated on 1st Jan 2004.
The city streches cross numerous small islands in ghe mashy by Venetian lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in the northeast of Italy.
According to the legend, Venice was founded in 422 by Roman refugees fleeing from the Goths. However, no historical records exist about the origins of Venice. The city was probably founded as a result of the influx of refugees into the marshes of the Po estuary following the invasion which ravaged northern-eastern Italy starting from that of Quadi and Marcomanni in 166-168, who destroyed the main center in the area, the current Oderzo. More details of the legend of Venice, you may refer to any website of Venice history in internet..hehehehe..
Venice is obvously the world-famous for its canals. It is built on an archipelago of more than 100 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 transports 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 carfree area, unique in Europe in remaining a sizable functioning city in the 21st century entirely without motorcars or trucks.
Two vaporetti approach each other on the Canale Grande.
The classical Venetian boat is the gondola, although it is now mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies. Most Venetians now travel by motorised waterbuses ("vaporetti") which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city's islands. The city also has many private boats. The only gondolas still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.
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