Comments on: Uncharted Venice

By: Tamas Feher from Hungary

Tamas Feher from Hungary — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:06 +0000

I doubt if such a small map can show every waterway inside the historic city, there must be more? A fully detailed Venice street map supposedly requires several sq. meters. There could be rii too narrow for a gondola or even a kayak to pass and possibly not shown on the map?

Also, I heard there are magic canals, which appear just once every leap year and open only to the chosen ones. Nobody, but the cats know about those.

By: René Seindal

René Seindal — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:49:59 +0000

I actually had made a mistake on the map. The Rio San Michiel, a short dead end canal off the Canal Grande near Rio San Luca, should have been marked to.

I have corrected the error – not by changing the map, though

By: Gondola Greg

Gondola Greg — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:18:02 +0000

Wow, Rene.
That’s almost all of Venice.
It seems to me that if you wanted to, you could cover all those canals in one day. Of course, you might need to wear all black and do some fast talking in one or two places.
Maybe some of the more high-trafficked areas could be paddled in off-hours.

It sure would be cool to say that you’d rowed every canal of La Serenissima.