Fodor's Exploring Venice, 3rd Edition

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Edition: 3rd
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Fodor's
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Summary

Fodor's Exploring Guides are the most up-to-date, full-color guidebooks available. Covering destinations around the world, these guides are loaded with photos; essays on culture and history, architecture and art; itineraries, walks and excursions; descriptions of sights; and practical information. Fodor's Exploring Venice gives you great tips on dining and lodging for all budgets as well as tips on basics such as getting there and getting around and when to go and what to pack. "Authoritatively written and superbly presented...Worthy reading before, during, or after a trip."-- Philadelphia Inquirer "Absolutely gorgeous. Fun, colorful, and sophisticated."-- Chicago Tribune

Table of Contents

How to use this book 4(2)
Contents pages 6(3)
My Venice
Venice is
9(16)
A cliche
10(2)
Venetians
12(2)
In peril
14(2)
Sinking?
16(2)
Roadless
18(2)
Politics
20(2)
Festivals
22(2)
Absurd
24(1)
Venice Was
25(185)
A refuge
26(2)
A rising power
28(2)
The doge
30(2)
Institutions
32(2)
Queen of the Levant
34(2)
A mainland power
36(2)
An artistic melting pot
38(2)
A Renaissance capital
40(2)
In decline
42(2)
France and Austria
44(2)
A historical fossil?
46(2)
A--Z
Venice
48(44)
Focus On
Palaces
92(12)
Glass
104(8)
The Arsenale
112(4)
Gondolas
116(12)
Casanova
128(6)
The Rialto
134(10)
Venetian music
144(8)
Bartolomeo Colleoni
152(6)
Courtesans
158(10)
The Ghetto
168(12)
Food
180(2)
Wine
182(8)
The Scuole
190(13)
Marco Polo
203(5)
Death
208
Walks
The Accademia to Piazza San Marco
82(24)
A circular walk from the Rialto
106(48)
San Marco to the Arsenale
154(30)
The Accademia to the Frari
184(26)
Excursions
210(35)
Padova
214(4)
Verona
218(5)
Vicenza
223(5)
Accommodations
228(2)
Food and drink
230(4)
Shopping
234(4)
Nightlife
238(2)
Practical details
240(4)
Week's itinerary
244(1)
Travel Facts
245(15)
Arriving
246(2)
Essential facts
248(2)
Getting around
250(2)
Communications
252(2)
Emergencies
254(2)
Other information
256(3)
Language
259(1)
Glossary of artistic terms 260(1)
Accommodations and Restaurants 261(9)
Opening times 270(1)
Atlas Section 271(11)
Index 282(6)
Acknowledgments 288

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