6. Take a tour of the Grand Canal

A wonderful thanks to absorb the Grand Canal is on board a vaporetto (a rounded 230-passenger boat). The canal might not be swarming with merchandise-laden freight boats, however it’s still the most road of Venice, and solely to a small degree imagination is required to grasp its historical importance. The 3 and a [*fr1] km (two-mile) trip from the terminus to San Marco provides an excellent introduction to town, telling you additional regarding the approach Venice works – and has continuously worked – than any historical book. each family of note had to own a palazzo here, and this wasn’t only for reasons of social hauteur. The palazzi ar undeniably splendid however they were 1st and foremost solid business enterprises, and their styles ar as sensible as they’re attention-getting.