Ride vaporetto Line 1 down Venice's main street past four centuries of palazzos — the best cheap ticket in Italy.
Explore → Get Early AccessVenice's main street is a reversed-S of water lined with 170 palaces, best experienced for two euros' worth of vaporetto Line 1 at dusk — the whole architectural parade, façade by façade, from a boat seat.
For centuries every great trading family needed a palace on this bank — Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque fronts compete along four kilometers, their water doors built for the age when goods arrived by galley.
Only four bridges cross it — the fourth (Calatrava's) arrived in 2008 amid glorious controversy. Between bridges, traghetti (public gondolas) ferry locals across for pocket change; standing up for the crossing is the Venetian flex.
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