Vaporetto ride to the Rialto Bridge March 2012 trip to Madrid, Venice, Verona, Milan and Paris. Venice: Water taxi, Sestiere di Castello, San Marco in the morning, Murano, Ristorante A Beccafico, Secret Itinerary Tour, Campanile, Cathedral Basilica, Osteria Ae Sconte, Rialto Markets, Jewish Ghetto, San Giorgio Maggiore, Santa Maria della Salute, Gondola Ride   Previous Page                                                                 Next Page

Palazzo Salviati has mosaics advertising the products of the Salviati glassworks on Murano

Palazzo Cappello Layard (16th Century), Marcello Palazzo Grimani, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Bernard Palace

Thursday, day 6

This would be our last full day in Venice and we used it to do many of the things we hadn't found time for up until now. I wanted to take some photographs at the Rialto Markets, so we started out with a vaporetto ride to the Rialto Bridge. We snagged seats on the outside of the vaporetto, so Linda and I could take pictures along the way. 

Venice has nearly 100 palaces and the majority of those are along the Grand Canal. The fronts of Venetian palaces face the water, because that was the way they are approached. The backs of the palaces face the campos behind them and are not elaborately decorated like the water side.