HOW TO GET TO VENICE
Air Transport:
The Marco Polo Airport is located 12 km overland land and 10 km over water from Venice and is well connected to the city by public transportation lines (water and land) and to the rail station in Mestre.
Railway Transport:
Venice has two rail stations. The first station that all Venice-bound trains enter is the Venice-Mestre Rail Station. This station does not bring you to Venice, but rather Mestre, mainland Venice. It's located in Piazzale Favretti 1 - 30170 Mestre Tel. 041-930792 - Fax 041-928513 / 041-784440 Special Disabled person services: Tel. 041-929472 You can get to the city from the station by taking the city bus or by taxi (Call a taxi: tel. 041.936222).
After crossing the bridge that spans the lagoon, the train next comes to the Santa Lucia Station of Venice. The rail station is located on Fondamenta S. Lucia - 30100 Venice. Just about every part of the city can be easily reached from the station, either on foot, by public boat (vaporetto) or in private water taxi.
For more information on train timetables, check out the Trenitalia web site.
Car Transport:
Getting to Venice by car is easy: the directions to reach the city are clearly marked with road signs. Venice can be reached by:
Motorway connections: -the A4 from Trieste and from Turin -the A27 from Belluno -the A13 from Bologna
Road connections: -state road 309 Romea from the Adriatic coast -state road 14 from Trieste -state road 13 from Treviso -state road 11 from Padua
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