https://transportational.com/tags/venice/ Recent content in venice on Transportational.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://transportational.com/venice-runs-entirely-on-boats-inside-the-grand-canal-freight-system/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://transportational.com/venice-runs-entirely-on-boats-inside-the-grand-canal-freight-system/ Every physical object in the historic centre of Venice arrived by hull. Bread, cement, hotel linen, restaurant deliveries, scaffolding, refuse going the other way, the coffin at a funeral. There is no road network behind the facade doing the real work. The canal in front of you is the road network, and the moored boats in this frame are the freight fleet at rest. The system has three legs. Goods reach the edge of the lagoon by road at Mestre and Marghera, transfer to flat-decked motor barges at the port or at Tronchetto, and then run into the city by water.