Venice

VENICESTARTER

First light on the basin

≈ 2,000 steps1.0 mi · about 2 hoursStarter · 3 stops · 500 credStart where you live.

Three stops on the water side of San Marco, about two hours on foot. Go early, before the day boats land, when the stone is still wet from the tide and you can hear your own steps in the arcades.

VENICESTARTER

The market side of the bridge

≈ 1,100 steps0.5 mi · about 2 hoursStarter · 3 stops · 500 credStart where you live.

Cross the Rialto, walk five minutes north into the produce and fish market, and finish in the largest campo in the city. About two hours. Come Tuesday to Saturday before ten if you want the market working rather than hosed down.

VENICESTANDARD

The long way through Cannaregio

≈ 3,000 steps1.5 mi · about 4 hoursStandard · 5 stops · 600 credOne trip earns it.

Five stops that cross Cannaregio from the Grand Canal to the open lagoon, about half a day at walking pace. Two bridges, the Ghetto, a square of stone strangers, and the north quay the island boats leave from.

VENICESTANDARD

Where Dorsoduro faces the sun

≈ 5,500 steps2.7 mi · about 4.5 hoursStandard · 5 stops · 600 credOne trip earns it.

Half a day along the south edge of Dorsoduro with one public boat hop over to the Giudecca: a neighbourhood campo, a working gondola yard seen from the far bank, a kilometre of open promenade, the point where two canals meet, and Palladio's steps.

VENICEADVANCED

The lagoon by public boat

≈ 6,000 steps2.8 mi · a full day · + 1 stretch not routedAdvanced · 8 stops · 800 credGetting there is not the hard part.

A full day on the northern lagoon using the public vaporetto out of Fondamente Nove: three stops on Murano, one on Mazzorbo, two on Burano, two on Torcello. Line 12 to Burano runs about fifty minutes, so check the last boat back before you set off. None of these islands is covered by the city access fee.