Romanticism in Venice, The water city

VENICE have epithet Love Town besides Paris of course, surely we can have a romantic atmosphere there. Otherwise, Venice resident skillful to make handicraft, becoming one of the tourism attractiveness.

Choose month of April-May to visit Venice because that is a springtime where the weather not cool enough and suitable weather for tourist from tropical state and avoid to visit Venice in summer – on month of July - August-- besides its weather extremely hot and high level of tourist’s density, smell of Venice river because of sunshine’s effect and air humidity. Most Indonesian people choose October to go there because that is a winter time where snow falls down at that moment.

Venice is easy to reach from another Italian town whether by car, bus or train. We can directly take water bus from Ferrovia Santa Lucia station, otherwise the bus stop and the biggest parking area which is located in Piazzale Roma across directly with water bus station. There is also an airport in Mestre, it’s about 10 kilometers outside the town, and also Venice Mestre’s station, which is the last dot of Venice majors cart route where connected this city with Treviso, Padova, Parma, Bari, Milan until Zagreb.

Venice split by especial river called Canal Grande. Its function is very important because it’s like a main road for Venice resident. The Great street of Venice length around 3.5 km and encircled by ancient buildings and palaces from 13th up to 18th centuries. It is dressed of mixture between Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque.

We can rent a gondola, Venice famous boat rolled by an oar, (or water bus for cheaper cost’s) to enjoy the beauty of Canal Grande. Gondola is the most chosen transportation by tourists to fringe the beauty of Water town which built since IX century. Why it called Water town? It’s because of Venice was built from 118 archipelago and it has 180 canals. This exotic town facing Adriatic Sea connected almost by 400 bridges!! What an extraordinary.

Basilica San Marco is the main target of the tour in Venice, Santo Markus town square "Piazetta in San Marco" representing one of the symbol of Venice’s beauty. Its location is flanked by Palazzo Ducale "Ducale Palace", library and south of Balisika Santo Markus also its view straight to Bacino in San Marco "Saint Mark’S Basin". This town square became mute eyewitness all religion activity and social of Venice since hundreds of year ago, such as Santo Markus corpse arrival procession, execute malefactor, and departure expectation of navy in Bacino, San Marco up to boat carnival (Regatta) and mask festival (Venetian Mask).

Behind all its beauty, in fact this town is disappeared threatened also, due to every 10 years, this town progressively sink some centimeters. Unhappily till now there’s no one have earned to save this town from the destruction threat. In fact, there are some geologists and engineers told them to increase the land surface as high as 30 centimeters which purposed to avoid this city sink from floods threat and overflowing water. However, it is possible still require to be awaited by its result.

Venice native is known very friendly and esteem the meaning of town history, therefore, we must not to destroy or defile this town. Native have measure up to within call with family and have to feel hand in glove familiarity characteristic. Every lunch time or even supper is the moment to gather and become a kind of small celebration to family. It can waste the time more or less then 2 to 3 hours because it’s always interrupt with discussion between family so that no wonder all governance office or even shops are closed at that hours.

There are a lot what we can see in this town. Sestieri is a especial division of Venice which dividing this town become 6 canton, that is Cannaregio, San Polo, Dorsoduro, Santa Croce, San Marco and Costello. Later, there are a lot of restaurants in the river side which transparent and clean, so that we can enjoy a view while we enjoy the food. In the other hand, there are some crafting factories that we can visit and see they making it at the same time. We can buy the craft for the souvenir.

Not left behind the famous bridge which make people wondering that is Rialto bridge. Around this bridge there are luxuriant hotels as well as luxuriant restaurants. There also The Bridge of Sight, Academia Bridge, and Scalzi Bridge.