Talk:Venice

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Financial police!?

What the heck!!! "Italian law requires customers to retain receipts and you could (in theory) be stopped by the Financial Police and asked to show receipts for your purchases." Seriously? Show me ONE case where it happened. I've heard a lot of bad things about Venice, but I've NEVER heard of anyone being stopped by Financial Police! What SHOULD be said is a warning not to buy counterfeit products. Buying a Gucci purse from a street "merchant" for 30 euro may seem luring but if you're caught in the act the Italian law goes into action - the BUYER of counterfeit goods is punished not the seller. And, as they say in Italy, where there is "abuso", there is "penale". Le Grand Bleu (talk) 16:34, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit. Please add the warning. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:13, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Printing in Venice

Hi, this is to argue about this revert. Places with poster printing facilities in Venice were surprisingly hard to find (especially with no knowledge of Italian), it took us several hours and multiple attempts, so I thought it worthwhile to include the information here. The reason why I'm listing poster printing in a travel guide is because this is useful for professional trips to conferences. If you think this is useful, please feel free to add it back. --A3nm (talk) 01:11, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

That seems like a good argument, but I'm unsure, and especially about listing only one. Let's see what other people say. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:54, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Sleeper trains to Venice

I know some of them still exist, but which? It would also be really nice to have links to the railroad(s) running them. Hobbitschuster (talk) 15:40, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

The redlinks in "orientation"

Are they important? If not, can we get rid of them? If yes, why are they red? If this wants to be featured, we should probably do something there... Hobbitschuster (talk) 22:13, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

I've created a stub article for Mazzorbo. Nothing by way of listings yet. Ground Zero (talk) 12:59, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I've expanded that article, and created one for Sant'Erasmo. Ground Zero (talk) 00:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Districtification?

While Venice is small by land area and not enormous by population, it is filled by interesting venues and historical buildings. The city has six sestiere (boroughs). /Yvwv (talk) 10:16, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Aaaaaaaaannnnd, that proposal went nowhere, sigh. Hobbitschuster (talk) 22:38, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Metropolitan Venice

The Metropolitan Venice article contains very little information beyond the trivial. It needs to be expanded. /Yvwv (talk) 17:39, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Does it need to be expanded or merged somewhere? Hobbitschuster (talk) 22:41, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Mapframe + Mapshape's

The Mapshape's that come with the Mapframe do not show the correct areas for the Sestieri of Venice. --FredTC (talk) 11:58, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

I found out how to get additional mapshape's for Cannaregio, Castello, Dorsoduro and San Marco. I could not do this for Santa Croce, because there was no Mapshape available for the Cruise Terminal area. --FredTC (talk) 10:41, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

New page banner

I think the current banner looks boring. It doesn't display those strong colors Venice has. Especially in later hours. Also Santa Maria della Salute is cropped out in the current banner which is bad. Jankela121 (talk) 16:46, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

I like this proposal more than the current banner. Ground Zero (talk) 17:25, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

It's an improvement, but I'd really like one from the perspective of one of Venice's canals, perhaps looking toward the bridge? There must be many amazing pictures of the city on Commons. --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 21:08, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Both the current banner and this suggestion are good. I think this suggestion is somewhat better. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:11, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Changes post-COVID?

Another travel site has Venice unveils plan to introduce entry fees and electronic turnstiles for tourists. Pashley (talk) 12:04, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

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Districts

I have plunged forward and created the first district article for San Polo. It is one of the sestieri and it felt easiest because it had the fewest listings. I feel it's important to start on districts since the main page is massive. I'm heading to Venice in October (hopefully!) and for me it was pretty hard to use the main page. In Venice proper it seems fine to use the sestieri as districts and listings could be duplicated until we manage to clean up the main page. I don't mind creating a couple of more districts and moving listings. However, adding flavor text will take a lot of time. --Jonte-- (talk) 13:48, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

• How excellent! I remember doing the same about Saint Petersburg about ten years ago, before I went; I arrived very prepared and knowledgeable. Mo'power to ya. --Ibaman (talk) 14:06, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

New banner

How about this one? SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 14:03, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

New banner

Current banner

• Support. I like how the new banner gives one the feeling of being in the city rather than merely floating above it from a distance. Nelson Ricardo 2500 (talk) 16:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• Support, per Nelson Ricardo. Ground Zero (talk) 16:33, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• Support, but the article's lead image (also showing the Rialto Bridge) will have to be changed. Mock up (with current lead photo) here.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 16:35, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• I, too, prefer the new banner, but I hope the existing banner can be put to good use, perhaps in one of the new district articles that will be created. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
• Support. --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 21:52, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Done SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 23:28, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Districtification

Here's my proposal for districts

Firstly, the six historic sestieri (districts)

• Castello
• Cannaregio
• Dorsoduro
• San Marco
• San Polo
• Santa Croce

The neighboring islands

• Burano
• Murano
• Lido

Finally, the mainland part of Venice

• Mestre

I think it's important to include both the islands and the mainland within the Venice article as most tourists does not visit for example Burano independently but as part of a visit to Venice. --Jonte-- (talk) 07:56, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. About how many listings would you expect there to be in each article? And are the boundaries between the districts obvious? Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:00, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Torcello is also an important neighboring island. --FredTC (talk) 10:15, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Lookning at the map I think the districts are pretty logical and there should at least be 10 sights in each district. Today there's very few listings for restaurants and bars that easily could expand the districts. Jonte-- (talk) 11:10, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorry I missed this. This seems reasonable to me. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:22, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

2022

Is someone going to finish this work? Jonte--, perhaps? The current "half-finished" situation isn't tenable, so either someone needs to finish the job, or we move the district articles Jonte-- and FredTC created into their userspaces.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 17:35, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

I've added a districts section to the main page. Progress! Eventually... ButteBag (talk) 14:28, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! The biggest job, which is what I mean by "finishing", is moving all the listings from the city article to the districts. If anything, I'd probably remove/hide the district list until that has been done.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 19:11, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Most listing, which are not under the See section have now been moved to districts. The main issue as I see it is that in order to removed See listings we need to add quite a lot of flavour text. I unfortunately do not have the time to do that. Perhaps texts from individual listings can be merged together. Jonte-- (talk) 18:09, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

ABM or ATM?

Hi, if these are same, and ABM is a Canadian term, why is ATM not used instead here? Wiki-uk (talk) 14:22, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Please make the change. Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:07, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Ready to feature?

Venice was nominated and slushed in 2021, see Wikivoyage:Destination of the month candidates/Slush pile#Venice. Is the article ready to get nominated again? /Yvwv (talk) 22:10, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Not now. There are still {{movetodistrict}} tags. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 22:22, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

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The same issue as below: banned user. –LPfi (talk) 17:51, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

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