威尼斯（Venice,Lonely Planet系列，英文原版）

　　This guide to Venice includes a colour map section, the pick of places to eat, sleep and shop, walking tours, on and off the beaten path, excursion details and a language section and food glossary.

　　Drift along in a gondola, marvel at mosaics or dance the night away at a masked ball — however you want to spend your time in Venice, this indispensable guide revels the best of Italy's most magical city.

　　1.16-page full-colour map section
　　2.the lagoon city from the water – detailed colour guide to the sights along the Grand Canal
　　3.accommodation to suit every style and budget, from coastal camp sites to canalside palaces
　　4.explore the city's top attractions and secret retreats with six walking routes around the sestieri
　　5.excursions into the Veneto include Padua and Verona

　　Venice
　　A city of northeast Italy on islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice, a wide inlet of the northern Adriatic Sea. Founded in the 5th century A.D. by refugees fleeing the Lombard invaders who had gained control of the mainland, it became a major maritime power by the 13th century and spread its influence over northern Italy and the eastern Mediterranean by the 15th century. Its territories were gradually lost to the Turks, and in 1797 it passed to Austria. Venice was ceded to Italy in 1866. It is a tourist and commercial center known for its canals. Population: 271,000.

　　Damien Simonis
　　Living it lean in a wintry, dark south London as a freelance copy editor on the nation’s dailies (especially The Guardian), Damien’s thoughts regularly drifted to other climes and other days, when he had lived in Cairo and Palermo teaching English, or hitch-hiked through Iraq when it was less dangerous to do so. Following a lead, he took a punt and managed to pry open the door to Lonely Planet in 1992, a move that changed the course of his life.
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　　This guide to Venice includes a colour map section, the pick of places to eat, sleep and shop, walking tours, on and off the beaten path, excursion details and a language section and food glossary.

　　Drift along in a gondola, marvel at mosaics or dance the night away at a masked ball — however you want to spend your time in Venice, this indispensable guide revels the best of Italy's most magical city.

　　1.16-page full-colour map section
　　2.the lagoon city from the water – detailed colour guide to the sights along the Grand Canal
　　3.accommodation to suit every style and budget, from coastal camp sites to canalside palaces
　　4.explore the city's top attractions and secret retreats with six walking routes around the sestieri
　　5.excursions into the Veneto include Padua and Verona

　　Venice
　　A city of northeast Italy on islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice, a wide inlet of the northern Adriatic Sea. Founded in the 5th century A.D. by refugees fleeing the Lombard invaders who had gained control of the mainland, it became a major maritime power by the 13th century and spread its influence over northern Italy and the eastern Mediterranean by the 15th century. Its territories were gradually lost to the Turks, and in 1797 it passed to Austria. Venice was ceded to Italy in 1866. It is a tourist and commercial center known for its canals. Population: 271,000.

Introducing Venice
City Life
Arts & Architecture
History
Sestieri
Walking Tours
Eating
Entertainment
Shopping
Sleeping
Excursions
Directory
Language
Behind the Scenes
Index
Map Section

Introducing Venice

The dap, dap of water thudding against the sidesof the airport waterbus quickens as you head south
from the mainland across the shimmering lagoon. Inthe distance rise the slender bell towers of
Muranoand, just beyond, Venice. Woven together like a finepiece of Burano lace from a myriad of
islets, Venicestill has the self-assured, almost quietly arrogantfeel of the 1000-year merchant
empire that wasknown as the Most Serene Republic and longdominated the eastern Mediterranean.
　While you approach this impossible city, built upon islets and platforms of countless pylons s]
ammed over the centuries into the mud of the lagoon, its people go about their business, traipsing
about the lanes and along canals, up and down the countless bridges. They have no cars to race
around in! And so the air hums to the sound of padding feet, chatter resonating off the walls along
narrow lanes and busy squares.
　The roads of Venice are made of water. Fire engines, police, ambulances and taxis tootle about as
wheeled vehicles would in other cities. On1y here they are all boats and the speed limit is 5km/h.
Not that anyone seems to enforce the limit. Suntanned taxi drivers pound about in their expensive,
oak-panelled vessels, dodging gondoliers with their boatloads of enthralled visitors.
　Venetians are unperturbed. Used to the incredible, indigestible accumulation of natural and
constructed beauty that surrounds them, and seemingly indifferent to the slow rotting decay of that
same beauty, they sometimes give the impression of being unaware that Venice has long ceased to be
one of the centres of the European universe. Venice was and remains a sore point with the rest of
Italy, a source of envy and irritation. Throughout its history, rivals as varied as the popes,
Milan, Genoa, Padua, Imperial Spain and the Turks sought to break the haughty masters of the
Adriatic. Often they came close. Nowadays, other Italians con ……