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No noise, no emissions, Venice’s first electric vaporetto sets sail
By Editor at December 18, 2010 | 10:37 | 0 Comment
If you are landing at Venice Marco Polo airport, you can now do your bit for the environment by travelling to central Venice in the nearly silent, electrically powered Alilaguna boat. These boats are white and yellow and have a large energy flash down the flank. The Alilaguna service was inaugurated on Dec 17th by Mayor Giorgio Orsoni. Of course, while the boats are more...
Fizzy Water Fountains in Paris and Free Wi Fi in Madrid
By Editor at December 16, 2010 | 18:10 | 3 Comments
Fizzy Water Fountains in Paris Paris has set up its first fizzy water fountain in Jardin de Reuilly in south-east Paris. Eau de Paris reports that it is a huge success and already very popular. Our water campaign seeks to urge Venice to start by marking the existing public fountains and also to copy this initiative in a bid to reduce the estimated 13 million plastic more...
Casanova’s Stomping Ground: the historic red light district
By Editor at December 16, 2010 | 11:54 | 5 Comments
You may have read our review of the ‘Antiche Carampane’ or the ‘Old Prostitute’ as the name translates, which more than hints at the historic red light district. This article looks at how the red light district grew rapidly and where it was concentrated. The growth of the red light district Prostitution had existed in some form or other from the very founding of more...
New Year’s Eve 2011 in Venice: kissing, comedy, fireworks, free music
By Editor at December 15, 2010 | 20:28 | 4 Comments
Venice’s stunning beauty and romance are wonderful at any time of year. But there are a few good reasons to get yourself there for New Year. Communal kiss Venice holds a communal kiss in Piazza San Marco and Piazza Ferretto in Mestre as the clock strikes 12 on New Year’s eve. So you never know who you might brush lips with. The kiss symbolises the spreading of peace more...
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Free Ads for Holiday Homes to Rent in Northern Italy
By Editor at December 13, 2010 | 17:16 | 4 Comments
Free Ads Do you have a holiday property in Northern Italy? You can advertise it free on the VeniceInfoSite as a special offer as part of our launch. If you are interested in this opportunity e mail us on info@veniceinfosite.com! Free advertising will be offered on a first come first served basis and for a limited time more...
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Iain Banks, author, ‘Venice is an unfailing source of happiness’
By Editor at December 8, 2010 | 10:57 | 1 Comments
Venice is uniquely beautiful Venice comes up trumps for the author Ian Banks according to an article in the UK's The Independent. Banks, author of the Wasp Factory, Whit, and The Crow Road among other novels, as well as a series of scence fiction books under the pen name of Ian M Banks, is clearly a big fan of Venice. Banks states that 'Venice is just uniquely more...
Floods in Venice 2011
By Editor at December 3, 2010 | 13:02 | 48 Comments
The flooding season The floods are most likely between late September and April, and especially in the months of November, December, and October, in that order.The floods have never occurred between June and August and are exceedingly rare in other months. Sirens at dawn Friday morning 3rd December last year was punctuated by the warning sirens that signal more...
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Venice Arrival and Orientation
By Editor at December 2, 2010 | 16:54 | 18 Comments
Orientation The Island city of Venice is often described as being shaped like a fish. Traffic free, apart the west-side or left-hand mouth of the fish where cars,buses and trains arrive, its highways and thoroughfares are canals. Everything in Venice has to be brought from the mainland, with the exception of some seafood and vegetables that are sourced directly from more...
A film about Venice Sei Venezia by Carlo Mazzacurati
By Editor at November 25, 2010 | 17:38 | 0 Comment
The Thief, the Artist, the Boy and the Chambermaid Well all right, if we are being pedantic its actually the thief, the archivist, the pensioner, the painter-fisherman, the chamber maid and a lad. These are the six characters featured in Mazzacurati’s Sei Venezia-Six Venice (s) or You are Venice, being its double meaning. Mazzacurati is famous for his movies, more...
The Venice Good Food Guide
By Editor at November 22, 2010 | 16:48 | 1 Comments
Venice is built on an archipelago of 117 islands formed by 177 canals in a shallow lagoon. With its rich maritime history, it's no surprise that much of the food in Venice centres around seafood. Wild water fowl is also common on menus and many vegetables these days are cultivated on the islands of the lagoon. Our good food guide focusses on these foods actually more...
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