Logistical Information:
Arriving by road to Piazzale Roma-Venice

Piazzale Roma is the bus terminal and parking area in Venice. Parking facilities available at Piazzale Roma can be found on the Azienda Servizi Mobilità S.p.a. website.
You may take a private water taxi or use the public water bus service in order to arrive at your destination within the City Centre.

Please note that timetables and prices may change: you are kindly requested to check this site again before your departure.

Private Water Taxi From Piazzale Roma - Venice

Private Taxis are available 24 hours from Piazzale Roma. You will find the water taxi rank on the waterfront between the vaporetto stops and Piazzale Roma. The taxi company in Piazzale Roma is Cooperativa Veneziana and the cost of a taxi from Piazzale Roma to the City's Centre is approximately € 60,00. For further information and to book a taxi please call +39.041.716124.

Public Water Transport in from Piazzale Roma - Venice

The vaporettos, or public water-buses, run 24 hours a day, less frequently after midnight. A number of lines travel on different routes at varying speeds, throughout the City. You will need to buy a ticket before boarding. Tickets cost € 6,00 for a one way journey and allow travel on all services (except for those of Alilaguna, Clodia and Fusina) for 60 minutes from stamping, with transport means change allowed in the same direction. Do not include the return journey. Included in the price is the transport of one luggage item of up to 150 cm as the sum of its three dimensions.
Alternatively short term season tickets may be bought from the water bus stop landing stages:
12-hour ticket: € 13,00
24-hour ticket: € 15,00
36-hour ticket: € 20,00
2-day ticket: € 25,00
3-day ticket: € 30,00
The boat lines leaving from Piazzale Roma are:
Number 1 - route from Piazzale Roma to Venice Lido. This boat stops at every stop along the Grand Canal.
Number 82 - a circular route throughout Venice, leaving in two directions from Piazzale Roma. Anti-clockwise to Piazza San Marco stopping at Tronchetto, the Island of Giudecca, Zattere and stopping at Piazza San Marco. Clockwise going through the Grand Canal stopping at Rialto, Accademia and Piazza San Marco and finally arriving at Venice Lido.
Number 41 - a circular route around the Island of Venice, stopping at the Giudecca Island, Piazza San Marco and continuing to the Island of Murano, Fondamenta Nuova and Piazzale Roma.
Number 42 - a circular route around the Island of Venice, does not go through the Grand Canal but goes around the north of the island, Tre Archi, Fondamenta Nuova, Murano and then on to San Marco, and back round to Piazzale Roma.
Number 51 - a circular route going clockwise, stopping at Piazzale Roma, Ferrovia, Tre Archi, Fondamenta Nuove, Hospital and the Lido.
Number 52 - a circular route going anticlockwise, stopping at Zattere, San Marco and the Lido. From the Lido it continues anticlockwise to the Hospital, Fondamenta Nuove, Ferrovia and Piazzale Roma.
Number 61 and Number 62 - they travel only between Piazzale Roma and the Lido, with stops at Zattere and San Marco.
Number 3 and 4 - they travel exclusively between Tronchetto and San Marco via the Grand Canal with stops at Piazzale Roma, Ferrovia, San Samuele, San Marco and Tronchetto.
There are many landing stages at Piazzale Roma, so be sure to ask before you board the vaporetto that is going in the right direction. For further information on the Vaporetto services within the City Centre please check: ACTV website.

Car Parks

Piazzale Roma: all garages are open 24 hours a day, all year round

- L'Autorimessa Comunale A.S.M. S.p.a. is Venice ' s biggest car park with 2,400 parking spaces, an automatic entry system which reads number plates and two hundred 24hr close circuit cameras that monitor all levels. There is a € 20.00 fixed rate charge for parking up to 24 hours. Parking may be reserved in advance through the following web site: http://www.urbislimen.net/.
- Sant'Andrea car park located just behind Piazzale Roma, has only 132 park spaces and charges € 4.50 for every two hours.
- Garage San Marco S.p.A, also located in Piazzale Roma, charges approximately € 20.00 for 12 hours and € 26.00 for 24 hours . If you are staying for a week, you can agree on a 20% discount before checking in.
Tronchetto - open 24 hours a day, all year round
After crossing Ponte della Libertà bridge, before arriving in Piazzale Roma, follow the signs to the Tronchetto island car park.
Tronchetto island car park has about 3,500 parking spaces and charges a fixed rate of € 20.00 for up to 24 hours. If you pay in advance and plan to stay for longer than four days, you can ask for a 20% discount. From here you can take a water-bus (vaporetto) to S. Marco with lines 3, 4 or 82.
Alternatives on the mainland
- S. Giuliano car park is on the mainland, just before the bridge leading to Venice . There are 800 spaces and it is open for 24 hours. Charges are € 4,00 for all day and € 1.00 for each additional hour.
- The Serenissima car park, found in Mestre just in front of the railway station, has about 500 park spaces and charges from € 4.13 for up to 6 hours.
Please note: do not be fooled by illegal touts offering to arrange parking and hotels, they are professionally dressed and very convincing. Do not leave valuables in the car. There is a luggage deposit office, open daily 8 am - 8 pm, next to the Pullman Bar on the ground floor of the municipal garage at Piazzale Roma.

This activity is part of the ESS RESECON project, that has received funding from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility.
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