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The vaporetto is a Venetian public waterbus. There are 19 scheduled lines [ 1 ] that serve locales within Venice, and travel between Venice and nearby islands, such as Murano , Burano , and Lido . The name, vaporetto , could be translated as "little steamer", and refers to similarly purposed ships in the past that were run by steam.
Vaporetto 13 is a mystery novel set mainly in Venice, Italy, by Robert Girardi. The title refers to the Vaporetto, which is a motorized water taxi commonly used in ...
"Emily Jacir’s stazione (2008 - 2009) is an unrealised intervention on the number 1 vaporetto (water bus) line, a main transport route along the Grand Canal beginning at Lido winding its way to Piazzale Roma, ferrying audiences from one Biennale exhibition to another, by inserting Arabic text supplementing the existing Italian names at ...
View from the northwest. Venezia Santa Lucia (Italian: Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia) (IATA: XVQ) is the central station of Venice in the north-east of Italy.It is a terminus and located at the northern edge of Venice's historic city (Italian: Centro storico).
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, circa 1875; portrait by Charles Reutlinger. Capriccio italien, Op. 45, is a 15-minute fantasy for orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.Composed between January and May 1880, it premiered on 18 December that year (New System) in Moscow with Nikolay Rubinstein conducting the Orchestra of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. [1]
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro.
Don't Look Now (Italian: A Venezia... un Dicembre rosso shocking, lit. 'In Venice... a shocking red December') is a 1973 English-language thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg, adapted from the 1971 short story by Daphne du Maurier.
Summertime is a 1955 romantic comedy drama film directed by David Lean, and starring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin, and Isa Miranda.It follows a lonely middle-aged American secretary and her experiences touring Venice alone for the first time, during which she falls in love with an Italian antiques dealer.