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How to take the public boats for Rialto
The "vaporetti" or water-buses represent a pleasant form of public transport, although the majority of the ways inside the city are done generally more quickly by feets. Regular service of public transport, named ACTV, link "Piazzale Roma" boat stop (buses and cars terminal) and the following "Ferrovia" (the station) to "Rialto" boat stop (which one meets after having passed below the bridge with the same name).

You will can choose between these two lines:

 - line N. 1, whose boats stop with all the stops during the journey, which arrives to the Lido and passes for Rialto and after for San Marco;

 - line N. 2, direct, whose boats stop only at some stop during the journey, which arrives only until Rialto or to the Lido (and, thus, also to Rialto)

The boats of the two lines arrived every 10 minutes and the way take approximately 10 minutes.The numbers of the two lines, as well as the principal stops, are reproduced on an indicating table in front of each boat, like inside the landing-stages.

Tickets of vaporetti (6,00 € for person) are more expensive if boughted on board rather than to the kiosk at each stop. One can also buy the tickets at the majority of the landing-stages and in the tobacco's shops.

The price of the ticket is the same for only one stop, as for all the circuit. Before each trip, the tickets must be perforated with the automatic machines in the landing-stages.

Do not forget to look at the cheaper and most practical tariff of vaporetto for your stay in Venice. The tariffs are posted on all ACTV kiosks.

You can buy a ticket for 24 or 72 hours, allowing to the holder an unlimited number of trips on the majority of the lines. For more few days, it can also be more economic to buy a weekly ticket, available to the tickets offices.

Informations: ACTV - Company of public transport - Tel.: +39 0415287886- www.actv.it

VENICEcard

This special ticket (valid one, three or seven days) enables you to use all the principal tourist services that the city offers to the visitor. Available in format Senior (more than 30 years) or Junior (less than 30 years),

VENICEcard is available in various versions according to needs:

•  - BLUE VENICEcard: includes public transport and the public toilets;
•  - ORANGE VENICEcard: includes the museums, public transport and the public toilets.

A service of boats "Alilaguna" from/to the airport Marco Polo can also be included. The holders of a Senior chart can enter free the Casinos of Venice and Mestre.

Call Center from Italy: 899909090 - From abroad: +39 0412714747

Where is the stops of ACTV lines at Piazzale Roma
Piazzale Roma it is a place of trapezoid form, at the feets of the Communal Car Parking, where's the terminal of public buses. Those which arrive there by car are obliged to choose a carpark or to make a half-turn and take the Bridge towards Mestre.

From Piazzale, go down towards the Grand Canal by the marble steps side to the new bridge of Santiago Calatrava.

Just in front, you can see the landing-stages of the line 2 (direct) of vaporetti of ACTV's service: remember that those which go to Rialto stop on the landing-stage to the left.

On the left, after 50 meters, you will find the stop of the vaporetti of line 1 (slowest) which go in Rialto and the Lido and other lines, which do not pass for Rialto.

Where are the stops of ACTV lines at Railway Station

The Railway station of "Venezia - Santa Lucia" in Venice, thus named to distinguish it from that of "Venezia - Mestre", is the terminus of the trains which arrive from Paris, Munich, Geneva, Zürich, Innsbruck, Vienna and other european cities. Express trains connect Venice to Verone, Bologna, Milan, Rome and others big Italian cities.

Down the steps at the entry of the station they are the landing-stages of the two principal lines of service ACTV:

 - On the left, close to the baroque church and large marble bridge, there's the stop of the vaporetti of line 2 (direct line): remember that those which go in Rialto stop on the landing-stage to the right.

 - On the right, close to a large building of the XIX century, you will find the stop of the vaporetti of line 1 (slowest line)

Once arrived to Rialto...

To arrive at the feets of the Rialto Bridge, we advise you to follow this way:

 - While leaving the landing-stage of line 2, turn right. After ten meters you will have in front of you a porch, and, on the left, opens a broad street, which has at its end a column: take it (to arrive there from the unloading dock of line 1: turn left while leaving, pass the bridge and the porch, turn right).

 - Arrived at the column, turn left and stright on. After fifty meters, you're arrived in a square, "Campo San Bartolomeo", with a statue of the comedywright Carlo Goldoni. From the square you can see, on the left, the central staircase of Rialto Bridge.

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At the end of the broad street on the left, there's a column (a monument)...

Arrived at the column, turn left...

After fifty meters, you're arrived in Campo San Bartolomeo, with the statue of the comedywright Carlo Goldoni.