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Actv S.p.A. (Azienda del Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano) is a public company responsible for public transportation in Venice and Chioggia municipalities and for interurban bus services in province of Venice. ACTV is not responsible for Venice People Mover (managed by AVM) or waterbus routes between airport and the lagoon area (managed by ...
In the Middle Ages, Chioggia proper was known as Clugia major, whereas Clugia minor was a sand bar about 600 m further into the Adriatic. A free commune and an episcopal see from 1110, it had later an important role in the so-called War of Chioggia between Genoa and Venice, being conquered by Genoa in 1378 and finally by Venice in June 1380 ...
The Venice Lagoon is mostly included in the Metropolitan City of Venice, but the south-western area is part of the Province of Padua. The largest islands or archipelagos by area, excluding coastal reclaimed land and the coastal barrier beaches: Venice 5.17 km 2; Sant'Erasmo 3.26 km 2; Murano 1.17 km 2; Chioggia 0.67 km 2; Giudecca 0.59 km 2 ...
Right after I got off the train in Venice, I headed to the vaporetto station. The three-day unlimited passes for me and my two children cost more than $120 — about $49 for me and about $36 for ...
Vaporetto on the Canal Grande in Venice. Venice Vaporetto water bus system – water bus and bus stop. 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.
To guarantee navigation and avoid interruption of activities in the Port of Venice, when the mobile barriers are in operation, a main lock is constructed at the Malamocco inlet to allow the transit of large ships; while at the Lido and Chioggia inlets, there are smaller locks to allow emergency vessels, fishing boats and pleasure craft to ...
Schaffhausen – Zürich – Chiasso – Milan – Venice: 382/283 Switzerland Italy CIS: 2004–? IC, EC: Caravaggio: Paris – Turin – Milan: 9240/9249 France Italy SNCF 2003–? TGV /Frecciarossa: Carl Maria von Weber † Hamburg – Berlin – Dresden – Prague: 178/179 Germany Czech Republic ČD: 1994, 2001–2002, 2006 EC: Berlin ...
The long and narrow rectangular shape of the Adriatic Sea is the source of an oscillating water motion (called seiche) along the basin's minor axis. [5]The principal oscillation, which has a period of 21 hours and 30 minutes and an amplitude around 0.5 meters at the axis' extremities, supplements the natural tidal cycle, so that the Adriatic Sea has much more extreme tidal events than the rest ...