Flights to Venice Any

Flights > Europe > Italy > Venice > ALL (VCE0)

Airport	Miles From City
Marco-Polo (VCE)	10
Treviso (TSF)	35

Venice Any flights summary:

Venice is served by the main Marco Polo International airport (VCE) and Venice Treviso airport (TSF), which is used by budget airlines like Ryanair and some charter carriers. Treviso might be perfectly convenient if you are heading onto the Dolomites, but the best way of getting into Venice itself has to be to take a boat launch from Marco Polo airport.

Venice Any in a nutshell:

Romantic Venice is one of Europe's top short-break destinations. This ancient city is quite unlike anywhere else on earth and an essential stop-off on any trip to northern Italy.

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Mini Guide to Venice Any

Water, water everywhere. This enduringly popular romantic destination in northeastern Italy, famed for its canals and gondolas, is so fundamentally soggy that even something as relatively functional as a bridge - and a bridge once used to transport prisoners to and from jail at that - can be elevated to the status of a major attraction. This, of course, is the Bridge of Sighs, which - legend has it - bestows eternal love on any couple that kiss beneath its arches as the sun goes down. Such legends keep bobbing to Venice’s surface: from Death in Venice to Don’t Look Now, something in the city’s configuration catches the imagination of all who pass, or sail, through it.

Amongst all this H2O, one patch of dry land may come as some relief: St. Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), which - aside from tourists, pigeons and other irritations - plays host to several of Venice’s main draws. It’s here you’ll find the grand Byzantine cathedral known as the Basilica (advance reservation is recommended, to beat the queues) and the Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale), once the seat of power for the Venetian Republic. Amongst its secret rooms and corridors sits the cell Casanova was reported to have tunnelled out from. With the Tintoretto and Titian frescoes tucked away in the Palace, and the treasures of the Santa Maria dei Frari church, Venice is particularly well-stocked with Renaissance art.

Romantics don’t like to address this, but untreated sewage released directly into the canals can leave Venice slightly pongy during the height of summer; local wisdom suggests it’s better to visit in spring or autumn, when the crowds also thin out. Whenever you go, getting around isn’t a problem. Going over water - whether via gondola or the more efficient vaporetto - provides its own angle on Venice’s once-crumbling townhouses, but there’s just as much pleasure to be taken from negotiating the maze of streets and side-streets on foot, encountering the many surprises the city has to offer. Be sure to pick up a map on arrival, and try to keep it from getting wet.