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ABOVE: Official signs point to the San Tomà traghetto stop, the Rialto Bridge, and the Piazza San Marco--but if you look carefully, you'll notice that the left-pointing arrows were added by vandals.
Directional signs
Official
directional signs--normally yellow, but sometimes white--are easy to find if you
look up at buildings as you walk down streets or wander around campi
(squares).
These
signs point to such major destinations as
San Marco,
Rialto,
Accademia,
Ferrovia
(the railroad station),
and
Piazzale Roma (the
transportation hub where you can
catch
airport buses,
taxis, or the People Mover
to the
Tronchetto parking garage
and the Marritima cruise
terminal.)
Other
signs direct you to vaporetto
stops or
traghetto piers (where you can catch
inexpensive gondola ferries across the Grand Canal).
In
addition to official signs, you'll see many homemade signs that shopkeepers and
residents have painted or tacked up on buildings to help lost tourists.
Don't obsess about plotting a route from point A to points B, C, and D: Just follow the arrows to the section of town that you're trying to reach. You can look at your map again when you're closer to our final destination.
Tip:
Sometimes, a sign may have arrows in two directions.
This simply means that you can get to the destination by parallel routes. (But
watch out for the occasional yellow sign that's been tampered with: An extra
arrowhead may be legitimate, but it could be a prank to confuse tourists.
When in doubt, ignore add-ons.)
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