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Excerpt from Cities of Northern and Central Italy, Vol. 2 of 3: In Venetia, Parma, the Emilia, the Marche and Northern Tuscany It is I hr. by rail from Padua to Venice - 4 frs. 50 c.: 3 frs. 25 c.: 2 frs. 30 c. (The station is about an hour in a gondola from the Piazza S. Marco, which is the centre of Venetian life. A gondola with one gondolier costs I fr., each piece of luggage 20 c. extra. Hotels New York, a large new hotel well situated near the entrance of the Grand Canal; Europa, very good; Bretagna, - all these are in the same situation. Vittoria, on one of the side canals, good, but with terrible smells. Danieli, Riva degli Schiavoni, old-fashioned. Inghilterra, Riva degli Schiavoni, a small but very comfortable house, pleasant and sunny in winter and spring, hot in summer. Restaurant. Qitadri, Piazza S. Marco (right), excellent for luncheons if you are in a hotel, for everything if in lodgings. Caffi. Florian (left), Visizza. S.Marco. Quadri (right). Gondolas (the cabs of Venice) cost (with one gondolier and four passengers) I fr. the first hour, and 1/2 fr. for each hour afterwards. For the whole day 51/2 frs. English Church. Close to the Accademia, on the right Photographer - celebrated for portraits - Ant. Sorgato, 4674 Campiello del Vina S. Zaccaria, behind Hotel d'Angleterre. Venetian Jewellery. The street near the Ponte di Rialto, left bank. It should be known that almost everything bought in the Piazza S. Marco costs treble the price asked in the Frezzaria and other less fashionable parts of the town. Wood Sculpture. Travellers should visit the Atelier (2795 Canal Grande) of Valentino Besarel. It is only in Italy that you find this interesting type of the untaught artist of unerring taste, whose art is the sole object and interest of his life. He is a native of Cadore, where his ancestors were carvers of wood in Titians time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.