Travel Venice

Venetian glass produced in Venice from the Middle Ages. Mirrors and chandeliers made in Murano can be found. Today in glass-blowing workshops drive even the organised excursions. And daily from Venice take away in all doomsday of an item from Murano glasses.

It and every possible figures from glass, and ornaments which are presumed to itself by each tourist, and sparkling chandeliers, and, of course, author’s sculptures, cost in some thousand euro. That precious souvenirs have not broken in road them specially pack into boxes for fragile items.

About the rich cultural past of Venice, about impressive history of military gains and plunders of the seized cities it is possible to judge not only on beauty of cathedrals and palaces, but also by quantity and quality of antique shops. Here it is possible to find ancient engravings, prints with scenes of the Venetian life, ancient mirrors, ornaments, furniture, silver and many other things. In Venice it is a lot of antiques shops, but they concentrate in Dorsoduro and in area between central Dignity Marco and Dignity Samuel.

Under the Italian laws to you are obliged to render urgent medical aid without dependence from that, there is at you an insurance on hands or not. If it became bad with heart if there was a dehydration, both other and other, it is not obligatory to run in hotel, to search for a book-insurance, and then to call to Moscow and to explain to the operator that happens. It is Enough to dial at once number 118 and to cause the fast.

As in a city of automobile movement is not present, fast will leave on a boat and will take away you on the nearest channel. The meeting place will need to be discussed by phone. It is always more reliable to ask than local residents to make a call and to explain to doctors where you are. Venetians are very sympathetic, if affairs are bad - safely fall on a floor in the nearest shop and appeal about the help.

If to address there is nobody, reach the nearest channel, and find any reference point - for example, church or the bridge. All even the smallest bridges in Venice have names, they begin with word Ponte (in Italian “bridge”). It is Enough to name quay and the bridge that the first aid boat has found you.

If there is no necessity to cause a boat, but consultation of the doctor is urgently necessary to you (terrible skin, a sting of an unknown animal), always it is possible to come in first aid branch independently, without record and, besides, without the insurance.

The city hospital - Ospedale Civile di Venezia which is between quay Fondamenta Nove and area Santi Giovanni e Paolo. It is possible to reach on Vaporetto to stop Ospedale, or it is direct from Sacred Giovanni’s area and Paolo to step in a marble facade of XV century. Further - to follow indexes Pronto Soccorso - first aid.

City hospital Venice

Medicines

The majority of preparations in Italy sell only under the recipe of the doctor. Even for the most banal contraceptive tablets, the drugstore will demand from you a piece of paper signed by the doctor. If there is a probability, that in Venice medicines can be necessary for you, it is better to take them with itself from Russia.

Otherwise, it is necessary to call in the insurance company that to you have found the doctor, capable to write out the recipe (and for reception it is necessary to pay.)

Any medicines in Italy can be bought, simply having shown to the pharmacist the certificate of the doctor. If you have a document with a photo and English decoding, pills to you should sell without questions.

Drugstores, as well as the majority of institutions in Venice, work with a long lunch break, from 12:30 till, are closed at 20:00. On doors of each drugstore there is an address of the person on duty - farmacia di turno.

That all it to you was not required, try to drink in hot weather as much as possible water, and in any weather to abstain from a dinner at the central tourist restaurants.