Sentences with word «vaporetto»

The surprise winner of the Golden Lion for best national pavilion went to Angola — a tiny show several vaporetto stops away from the Giardini that many had overlooked before the prize was awarded.

Leon creates such a rich sense of place that reading often feels like a slow vaporetto ride through the swelteringly humid canals of Venice, past splendid bridges and palazzi with time out for tramezzini and rich Italian coffee.»

Surrounded by water with St. Mark's Palace, the bell tower and Doges» Palace ahead of us, we moored a short distance from the Giardini vaporetto stop; Venice's ACTV water bus system offers a convenient way to get around Venice's historic centre.

A mere vaporetto ride away an even more radical example of «post-curatorial exhibiting» can be viewed: Damien Hirst's Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable.

She deals with a symbol of Lisbon, the cacilheiro, a ferryboat that connects the two banks of the River Tagus, which corresponds to the emblematic Venice vaporetto.

It's farewell for another year to mosquitos, vaporettos and incomprehensibly rude Italian film critics who insist on checking their email mid-screening, because the 70th Venice Film Festival wrapped up on Saturday.

A longtime resident of Venice, Leon paints a perfectly rendered portrait of the city's clash of Old World charms and New World treachery with vibrant depictions so convincing that you can practically taste the spaghetti alla vongole and hear the din of the vaporettos in the canals.

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Simply do as the locals (and most non-locals) do, and hop on a vaporetto (water bus).

You can also get a vaporetto to San Michele, the city's cemetery island.

The best way to experience this busy yet very scenic canal is by boat, for example with the vaporetto or in a hired gondola.

With no cars on the island, Venice is the perfect city to explore by foot, vaporetto and gondola, a once - in - a-lifetime experience at the top of many travel bucket lists!

Jacir translated the names of each vaporetto station along Route 1 on the Grand Canal into Arabic, and proposed to place them alongside the existing Italian signs to create a bilingual transportation route through the city.

That sent a bunch of us out on the rain - swept San Samuele dock in search of a water taxi or vaporetto.

Incidentally, I think one of the best comments on art and globalism were the words, «Scrivo in Italiano», scrawled all over the English - language Biennale posters at one of the vaporetto stops.