There are three transportation options for transferring to Venice following your arrival on the mainland. Visitors will be arriving initially on the mainland either at the Santa Lucia train station, the Marco Polo airport, or if traveling by car to Piazzale Roma. This guide to how to get from the train station from Venice helps determine which option is best for you. The public water bus, called vaporetto, stops all along the Grand Canal, and runs different lines according to

The easiest way to get to Venice from Florence is to take the train, of course. The Frecciargento fast train line runs from Florence typically every 45 minutes from the Santa Maria Novella station and will get you to Venice in just under 2 hours, arriving at the Venice Santa Lucia station. Tickets can be purchased at the station either from the ticket office, “biglietteria,” or the self-service ticket machines throughout the station. The ticket machines require that you enter

Crossing the intersections between Italy and the rest of the globe ourselves at Elaia Travel, we are pleased to see Netflix charting new territory with the production of its first original historical epic, the series Marco Polo. The legend and history of Marco Polo is known so widely for what may seem like a simple reason today, but was more complex in the 13th century—we know of his travels because fortune smiled on his stories when his literate prison-mate in Genoa recorde