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Where to Stay THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE
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THE FIRST TIME
I'm lucky enough to have lived in Venice and when friends came to
stay who'd never been to the city the first thing I did with them
was the same - not St Marks, but a trip by vaporetto (water-bus)
along the Grand Canal. Cars, taxis or buses drop you at Piazzale
Roma, a drab foretaste of the world's most beautiful city. But push
down to the busy waterfront and look for the No 1 or No 82 boats.
Then make sure they're going the right way - down the Grand Canal,
not round ...
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Where to Stay THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE
The Sunday Telegraph London
; THE FIRST TIME I'm lucky enough to have lived in Venice and when friends came to stay who'd never been to the city the first thing I did with them was the same - not St Marks, but a trip by vaporetto (water-bus) along the Grand Canal. Cars, taxis or buses drop you at Piazzale Roma, a drab foretaste
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Staying in fashion Now you can live just like your favourite designer - in a hotel they've made to measure
Evening Standard - London
; Now you can live just like your favourite designer - in a hotel they've made to measure. FERRAGAMO HOTEL CONTINENTALE, FLORENCE Ferragamo's latest hotel venture, which opened in January 2003, is their fourth property in Florence. Its position on the right bank of the River Arno, facing the Ponte
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The best low-cost weekend breaks
Evening Standard - London
; Hotel San Cassiano Ca' Favretto pounds 468 A favourite with upmarket UK tour operators, this is a small (36 room) converted 14th century palazzo (right) quietly located in Santa Croce with a pretty breakfast room overlooking the Grand Canal and Englishspeaking staff. The best room is the main suite
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Venice's Grand Canal always makes a big splash; Forego the pricey gondolas and take the colorful water bus, the vaporetto
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ... the business district near the Rialto bridge. This is Venice's waterlogged Wall Street where Shakespeare's Shylock asked: "What news on the Rialto?" The question is still used to mean, how is the market doing? Shaped like a backward "S," a medieval sign of wonder ...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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The best low-cost weekend breaks.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: TOM OTLEY Hotel San Cassiano Ca' Favretto [pound]468 A favourite with upmarket UK tour operators, this is a small (36 room) converted 14th century palazzo (right) quietly located in Santa Croce with a pretty breakfast room overlooking the Grand Canal and Englishspeaking staff. The best room
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Special Supplement: Grand Canal gets new lease on life
China Daily
; Regarded as one of China's top tourist cities, Hangzhou is often associated with the beautiful West Lake, the well-known Dragon Well Tea and its leisurely lifestyle. This capital city of East China's Zhejiang Province is also known for being the terminal point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal,
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Staying in fashion; Now you can live just like your favourite designer - in a hotel they've made to measure.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: HETTIE HARVEY Now you can live just like your favourite designer - in a hotel they've made to measure. FERRAGAMO HOTEL CONTINENTALE, FLORENCE Ferragamo's latest hotel venture, which opened in January 2003, is their fourth property in Florence. Its position on the right bank of the River
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'Grand Canal,' Paula Egolf, Lancaster Galleries West.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
; "Grand Canal," Paula Egolf, Lancaster Galleries West.
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Grand Canal is grand beyond compare
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; VENICE, Italy -- Some travel truths are self-evident. As the Great Wall of China is great indeed, so Venice's Grand Canal is grand beyond compare. For two and a half miles, this watery Champs-Elysees winds down a fantastic architectural canyon lined with rococo palaces and Moorish mansions, past
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`BY THE GRAND CANAL' HAS A NICE SENSE OF PLACE BUT ITS STORY MEANDERS
The Boston Globe
; William Riviere's "By the Grand Canal" ventures into territory staked out by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and Remarque. Set in post- World War I Venice, Riviere's tgale follows the fortunes of a small group of friends, each of whom struggles with loss and disorientation. The characters brood over
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