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It is hard to imagine a more beautiful city canal than the Grand Canal in Venice. The famous Grand Canal or Canalazzo, as the inhabitants of Venice call it, with its amazing frame with picturesque palaces and houses, is the central transport artery of the city in the form of an inverted Latin letter "S". The Grand Canal, in this sense, is not strictly understood: it is not an artificially dug structure, but the former shallow channel between the islands of the lagoon, one of which is Rialto. The canal has almost no embankments; they are replaced by the facades of houses facing the canal. These houses, as a rule, are built on stilts, while they have two exits - on land and on water.
The Grand Canal is the concentration of the most beautiful buildings in the city. It is because of this that the Venetians call their main waterway - the “Canal Palace” (Italian: Canalazzo). On the banks of the canal there are more than 100 palaces, among them: Ca 'Rezzonico, Ca' d'Oro, Ca 'Foscari, Palazzo Barbarigo and many others. When you pass by, it makes an absolutely amazing impression, as in a fairy tale, and you want to swim and swim endlessly. Traveling through the canals of Venice and sailing in gondolas are one of the most romantic and memorable moments of traveling in Italy.
The channel runs through the whole city. Starting from the lagoon at the station, it passes through the whole city and ends by connecting to the Canal of San Marco and the Canal of La Giudecca at the customs building.
The channel, whose length is 3,800 m, its width varies from 30 m to 70 m, and its depth reaches 5 m to 5 m and 50 cm, divides the city into two unequal parts, flowing into the wide canal of St. Mark, in whose waters a grandiose Doge's Palace. This artery through 3 bridges (railway station, Rialto and Academy) and through 45 channels flowing into it, connects all areas of the city.
Peculiar canals (ducts) wash the houses and palaces of the city, their width ranges from 4 to 5 meters and, therefore, only gondolas float along them. Narrow and winding sidewalks, the so-called “Calli”, go to “Campi” - to fairly large areas, to “Campielli” - to small areas or to “Court” - courtyards with a single entrance.
The city is divided into the following areas: San Marco (St. Mark), Castello, Cannaregio, Santa Croce (Holy Cross), San Paolo (St. Paul) and Dorsoduro, which includes the church parish of St. Euphemia. About one hundred thousand inhabitants live in these areas. Venice is connected with the mainland - the "terra farm", located at a distance of four kilometers from it, not only water transport, but also two bridges crossing the lagoon, one railway, with two tracks 2.601 m long, built in 1841-46 and the other with a motor road with a length of 4.070 m and a width of 20 m, built in 1931-32 and passing in separate sections near the railway bridge.
You can navigate the canal on a vaporetto (river bus), river taxi or gondola. Movement to the vaporetto is more affordable (6.5 euros per person), but at the same time more crowded. For a convenient place will have to "fight." An alternative could be a water taxi. The most expensive transport is a gondola. Each such boat has a unique design that is complemented by red and gold velvet cushions.
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