Venice is an extremely touristic city but curiously almost tourists are concentrated in the same places: Rialto Bridge, San Marco Square and surroundings.
However, if you walk away from these places, you can find wonderful corners with Venetian essence to really enjoy its tranquility.
We show you below 5 curiosities of Venice.

NOT EVEN A BICYCLE

In Venice, the only way to move around the city is on foot or by water, the maritime traffic is impressive! There are plenty of vaporettos (small boats that transport you from one place to another), watertaxis, gondolas, boats, etc...
Therefore, in Venice there are no cars, buses, trucks, motorcycles... nor will you see any bicycle (they are forbidden and you should pay a fine if you use it!).

Maritime traffic in the big channel

ONLY ONE SQUARE IN VENICE

Curiously, Venice has only one square, the famous Plaza de San Marcos, where a good part of the tourism is concentrated at all hours of the day.
The rest are small squares, which are not even called square or piazza in Italian.

San Marco square

HIGH TIDE

It is a phenomenon that occurs under specific weather conditions (tides, wind and pressure) that can be predicted only 12 hours before. It is a short time, but enough to organize the city, the houses and the shops before the imminent arrival of the water.
As an example, the famous Plaza de San Marcos can become flooded and the city is prepared with footbridges so that people can pass without getting wet.

TRAFFIC SIGNS, POLICE AND OTHER SERVICES

Maritime traffic is a real chaos in Venice ! How is it possible to find different means of transport passing through the same channel at the same time.
For example, gondolas and boats must run on the left and motor boats on the right. In addition, we can see traffic signs on the walls of the canals for the various means of maritime transport.
It is curious to see taxis (boats), or how the police move in boats and the mail and courier is delivered through the canals in a motor boat.

Watertaxis

ONLY TWO CHANNELS

When we visited Venice we had the impression of seeing a lot of channels, but in reality there are only two, the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal. The rest of the small canals that flow between the narrow streets are called rivers.

Photo taken from the big channel

Small channel (called river)

Kindly

@aminealaoui