Streetwise Venice Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Venice, Italy Map – Folded Map, January 1, 2015

Finally a city map designed for the visitor who besides carrying a guide book and perhaps a camera wants to remain unencumbered by much else. This map is as detailed as it is handy. It seems to show more street names and sight-seeing details than do even Google maps; and all this in a visually very appealing layout. The waterways appear in distinct purple as do their labels, the crossing bridges and streets in white with labels in black: Figure 1.The map is printed in contiguous sections on a single sheet of thin accordion-folded cardboard: Figure 2. As you ride the Waterbuses (Vaporetti) and walk around the city (La Serenissima) you can readily trace your course from one section to the next. With its waterproof coating the map is well-suited for Venice's frequent torrential rains. What's further helpful is that the major monuments are shown in three dimensions rather than merely as symbols with a cross. Also useful is the extensive list of points of interest, Figure 3.The map's section showing the waterbus routes is alas not so easy to grasp. It has been redrawn and so much simplified as to be difficult to follow. The official route map published by the Venetian transportation agency, ACTV.it, is much clearer. See Figure 4. You can find the latest free bilingual Italian and English edition here:http://www.actv.it/sites/default/files/ultimamappa.pdfThis same website also lets you download timetables for each waterbus and ferry route.

This map (and the other streetwise maps) were extremely helpful on our trip! Super easy to use, waterproof, fit nicely in my backpack, fold up easily. I recommend them to everyone travelling to a major city. They are excellent for the major city centers!For me, Venice was the most difficult city to navigate, but I cannot blame it on this map. This map helped when it could, but the roads and canals are not well marked as in other cities.

This map is not the best map of Venice necessarily. But it is a very good map.I used mine over about 4 days in Venice, and it did everything I needed with ease.Many streets in Venice are unmarked, intermittently marked, or otherwise just hard to find. It's easy enough to navigate as long as you remember a few big streets and don't mind wandering. This map won't solve that problem.But it does let you navigate between big sights and different neighborhoods relatively easily on foot or on boat (the water taxi routes are marked as well).I love the Streetwise maps because they are tough and small. They are a best-in-class sort of map, but if you're not spending a huge amount of time in Venice, want to get around, and don't mind a little bit of adventuring (really a nice thing to do in Venice anyway) this map was very useful in my experience. Second of course to getting some directions from locals.

My girlfriend and I booked a vacation with an online travel broker to tour Italy and France. It was a whirlwind 14 day trip that spanned 2 countries and included stops in 6 cities. Neither of us speak Italian OR French and certainly had no idea of the geography in each city.A friend of ours who's traveled abroad quite a bit recommended Streetwise, and I invested in maps for Venice, Rome and Paris. I would argue that the maps of Rome and Paris were more complete and helpful from the Venice map, but by no means do I regret my purchase. My difficulty with Venice was the vast number of streets that twist and turn and change names from one side of a bridge to the other. The map was accurate - at least the streets that were named - but there were several that weren't and others that were just incredibly difficult to find. Worth the money, but if you're not familiar with Venice, I would still plan to spend at least a few hours lost if I were you.

A map won't do you a whole lot of good in Venice. The roads are windy and often end at a canal. Just enjoy wandering around.If you do feel better with a map, make it Streetwise. These maps are great. They are laminated which makes them sturdy and water-resistant. They are very detailed. They fold accordian style so you can open just one fold at a type and not have to look as touristy. Good stuff, worth the extra couple dollars.

I bought this map 1 each for Rome, Venice, and Florence and it was absolutely indispensable. I loved the way it showed all of the streets and sites in the index and had the larger inset map of the areas of interest. I will buy one of these any and every time I travel in Europe from now on. This saved us tons of time and money. Even showed the Metro lines in Rome for ease of getting around the city. It was a good size to carry in my hand all of the time and love that it was laminated to keep it clean. I marked our hotel location in dry-erase in each city for quick and easy reference point. Never steered us wrong, not once, while our Fodor's maps were full of errors. Great product!

I bought this map before my trip to Venice this month. Sorry to say this was useless. This map was handy but its tiny print and the complicated street layout in venice made it impossible to use. You can get much bigger (and more useful) maps in Venice, for only 1 Euro.

Not nearly as helpful as the free maps at the visitor's center in Venice. Difficult to read, many streets not named. Had to walk from railroad terminal to our hotel near San Marco, as waterbus was not running due to canal racing, No thanks to this map, it took almost 3 hours. Got quite lost and frustrated with this map. Save your money and just grab a free one anywhere they are available when you get there. Venice is quite beautiful and charming, by the way!