The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto

short detour at the northern end to San Michele and Murano. The #41 travels
anticlockwise, the #42 clockwise, and both run every 20min from 6.30am until
around 8pm; after that, the #41/42 together act as a shuttle service between Murano
and Fondamente Nove, running every 20min until around 11.30pm.
#51/52: Similar to the #41/42, this route also circles Venice, but heads out to
the Lido (rather than Murano) at the easternmost end of the circle. The #51 runs
anticlockwise, the #52 clockwise, and both run fast through the Giudecca canal,
stopping only at Záttere and Santa Marta between San Zaccaria and Piazzale Roma.
Both run every 20min for most of the day. In the early morning and late evening
(4.30–6am & 8.30–11pm) the #51 doesn’t do a complete lap of the city – instead it
departs every 20min from Fondamenta Nove and proceeds via the train station to
the Lido, where it terminates; similarly, from about 8–11pm the #52 (which starts
operating at 6am) shuttles between the Lido and Fondamente Nove in the opposite
direction, and from 11pm to around 12.20am goes no farther than the train station.
#LN: for most of the day the “Laguna Nord” runs every half hour from Fondamente
Nove (approximately hourly from 7.40pm to 11.20pm), calling first at Murano-Faro
before heading on to Mazzorbo, Burano (from where there is a connecting halfhourly
#T shuttle to Torcello), Treporti, Punta Sabbioni, the Lido and San Zaccaria
(the Pietà stop); it runs with the same frequency in the opposite direction.
#DM: from around 8am to 6pm the “Diretto Murano” runs from Tronchetto via
Piazzale Roma and Ferrovia to Murano, where it always calls at Colonna and
Museo, and often at other Murano stops too.
#N: This night service (11.30pm–4.30am) is a selective fusion of the #1 and #82
routes, running from the Lido to Giardini, San Zaccaria, San Marco (Vallaresso),
Canal Grande (Accademia, San Samuele, San Tomà, Rialto, Ca’ d’Oro, San Stae,
San Marcuola), train station, Piazzale Roma, Tronchetto, Sacca Fisola, San Basilio,
Záttere, Giudecca (Palanca, Redentore and Zitelle), San Giorgio and San Zaccaria
– and vice versa. It runs along the whole of the route in both directions roughly every
30min, and along the Rialto to Tronchetto part every 20min. Another night service
connects Venice with Murano and Burano, running to and from Fondamente Nove
every 30min between midnight and 4am.
venice: the Practicalities
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unrestricted travel, you have to buy a Venice
Card (see p.37).
If you buy one of these unrestricted travel
tickets at the train station or Piazzale Roma,
the train station, San Zaccaria or San Marco
it will be automatically validated with a timestamp
unless you specifically request a nonvalidated
one; the same goes for ordinary
tickets. When using a non-validated ticket
or pass (such as the Venice Card) you must
validate it before embarking, by inserting
it into one of the machines at the entrance
to the vaporetto stop or on board the bus;
the ticket is valid from that moment, and you
need to validate it just once.
Traghetti
Pending completion of the Ponte Calatrava
(which is planned to connect Piazzale Roma
and the train station), there are just three
bridges spanning the Canal Grande – Ponte
dei Scalzi (at the train station), Ponte di
Rialto and Ponte dell’Accademia – so the
traghetti (gondola ferries) that cross it can
be useful time-savers. Costing just 50 cents,
they are also the only cheap way of getting
a ride on a gondola, albeit a stripped-down
version, with none of the trimmings and no
padded seats: it’s de rigueur to stand in the
traghetto gondolas. The gondola traghetti
across the Canal Grande are as follows
(proceeding from the San Marco end to the
station end): Santa Maria del Giglio–Salute
(Mon–Sat 9am–7pm); Ca’ Rezzonico–San
Samuele (Mon–Sat 7.40am–1.20pm); San
Tomà–Sant’Angelo (Mon–Sat 7am–8.50pm;
Sun 8am–7.50pm); Riva del Carbon–Riva del
Vin (Mon–Sat 8am–2pm); Santa Sofia–Rialto
market (Mon–Sat 7am–8.50pm; Sun 8am–
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