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The Rough Guide to Venice & Veneto is your definitive handbook to this splendour-aching European City. From the water-lapped palaces along the Canal Grande to the buzzing Rialto market, the full-colour section introduces all of the regions highlights. With more cultural background than any other guide, you’ll find detailed accounts of all Venice’s monuments and museums, from San Marco to the far-flung islands and practical coverage of Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso, and a host of other Veneto towns and sights. Opinionated reviews of all the best places to eat, drink and stay in every price range. The guide also takes a detailed look at the region’s history, culture, events, painting and architecture and comes complete with maps and plans for every area.
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ROUGHGUIDES
THE ROUGH GUIDE to
Venice
& the Veneto
About this book Rough Guides are designed to be good to read and easy to use. The book is divided into the following sections and you should be able to find whatever you need in one of them. The colour section is designed to give you a feel for Venice and the Veneto, suggesting when to go and what not to miss, and includes a full list of contents. Then comes basics, for pre-departure information, followed by Venice practicalities, with all the information you’ll need when you first set foot in the city. The guide chapters cover each area of Venice in depth, giving comprehensive accounts of all the attractions, while the listings section gives you the lowdown on accommodation, eating, shopping, and more. The Veneto chapters describe places to head for outside Venice. Contexts fills you in on history, painting and architecture, and books, while individual colour inserts introduce festivals and Venetian palaces, and language gives you an extensive menu reader and enough Italian to get by. Next comes the small print, including details of how to send in updates and corrections, and a comprehensive index. Colour maps covering the city can be found at the back of the book.
This seventh edition published June 2007.
51899
UK £12.99 US $18.99 CAN $25.99
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The publishers and authors have done their best to ensure the accuracy and currency of all the information in The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto, however, they can accept no responsibility for any loss, injury, or inconvenience sustained by any traveller as a result of information or advice contained in the guide.
The Rough Guide to
Venice & the Veneto
written and researched by
Jonathan Buckley with additional contributions by
Charles Hebbert and Richard Schofield
NEW YORK • LONDON • DELHI www.roughguides.com
Colour section
1–16
Introduction ............................... 5 Where to go ............................... 7 When to go .............................. 10 Things not to miss ................... 12
Basics
17–32
Getting there............................ 19 The media ................................ 24 Travelling with children............. 25 Travel essentials ...................... 26
Guide
33–384
Venice: practicalities ........... 35 San Marco .......................... 43 Dorsoduro ........................... 94 San Polo and Santa Croce .. 113 Cannaregio ....................... 138 Central Castello ................ 158 Eastern Castello................ 177 The Canal Grande ............. 191 The Northern Islands......... 205 The Southern Islands ........ 217 Accommodation................ 233 Eating and drinking ........... 249 Nightlife and the arts......... 269 Shopping .......................... 275 Directory ........................... 283 The Veneto: practicalities .. 287 L Padua and the s