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What is worth pointing out

Corrections, above everything. A water-bus line changes its route, a traghetto stops running, a museum rearranges its rooms, a church changes the way visitors enter. If you have just been and something here did not match, that is worth more than any amount of desk research.

Especially useful: anything about arriving and moving around, such as the airport buses and water shuttles, the water-bus lines and landings, the day-visitor access fee and its rules, and the booking arrangements at the basilica and the Doge's Palace, which are the parts of this guide most likely to go stale.

What this is not for

It is not a booking service. This site sells nothing and books nothing, and cannot get you a room, a table, a gondola or a ticket; those are booked with the operators themselves.

It cannot tell you what something costs or when it opens: no price or opening time appears anywhere on this site, because the operator is the only source that is right on the day. In an emergency anywhere in Italy, call the European emergency number, 112.

The districts

If a page describes a place, a lane or a piece of the city's history in a way that is wrong or unfair, that matters here too, and it will be corrected. This guide does not label any district as good or bad, because such labels are rarely accurate and never useful.

Photographs

Every photograph on this site is credited beside it, and every credit links to the file's own page on Wikimedia Commons, where its author, its license and its history are recorded.

Photographs are replaced when a better or more recent one of the same place turns up, and captions are corrected when they describe the frame wrongly.