traghetto

Aika starts to take on more responsibility around Himeya; Alice travels up the challenging canal near Hope Hill; even Akari spends a day working on a huge gondola called a traghetto!

Mania News Feed 2009

Clementina repeated Mrs. Lander's acquiescence in the landlord's proposals, and he took his straw hat, and called a gondola from the nearest 'traghetto', and bargained at an expense consistent with his salary, to have himself rowed back to his own garden-gate.

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

Clementina repeated Mrs. Lander's acquiescence in the landlord's proposals, and he took his straw hat, and called a gondola from the nearest 'traghetto', and bargained at an expense consistent with his salary, to have himself rowed back to his own garden-gate.

Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

Today the slow drift of a traghetto is embarrassed by the wake of a speeding taxi ferrying the elegant elite on their palazzo hopping.

Kisa Lala: Venice Biennale: A Temple of Transience By Mike And Doug Starn Kisa Lala 2011

Today the slow drift of a traghetto is embarrassed by the wake of a speeding taxi ferrying the elegant elite on their palazzo hopping.

Kisa Lala: Venice Biennale: A Temple of Transience By Mike And Doug Starn Kisa Lala 2011

Today the slow drift of a traghetto is embarrassed by the wake of a speeding taxi ferrying the elegant elite on their palazzo hopping.

Kisa Lala: Venice Biennale: A Temple of Transience By Mike And Doug Starn Kisa Lala 2011

Today the slow drift of a traghetto is embarrassed by the wake of a speeding taxi ferrying the elegant elite on their palazzo hopping.

Kisa Lala: Venice Biennale: A Temple of Transience By Mike And Doug Starn Kisa Lala 2011

A cheaper and quicker alternative is the traghetto ( "ferry" in Italian): one of the six gondolier crossings along the Grand Canal.

Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008

By noon you can escape the crowds swarming across the Rialto Bridge by catching the gondola at the Pescheria traghetto stop (near Ca 'd'Oro).

Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008

What's more, walking tours that take strategic advantage of the traghetto crossings make it easy to avoid the main tourist thoroughfares.

Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008

Tip: if you just want to feel what it’s like to ride in one, take a traghetto, gondolas that ferry pedestrians back and forth across the Grand Canal, for just a couple of bucks.

Something Good #12: The Institute for the Study of 3:32pm, April 10, 1954 Mark Slutsky 2021