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 Car Hire & Driving in Venice, ItalyWelcome to Venice Car Hire, Italy; available at Venice Airport.Venice region Northeast ItalyLying in the extreme northeast of Italy, Venice, gateway to the Orient, became an independent Byzantine province in the 10th century. Exclusive trading links with the East and victory in the Crusade of 1204 brought wealth and power to Venice, which were only gradually eroded by European and Turkish rivals. Today, Venice’s ties are with the local Veneto region which stretches from the flat river plains to the Dolomites, all of which you can explore in your hire car while in Venice. Venice Car HireVenice is divided in to six ancient administrative districts or sestieri that you can investigate in your hire car, they are Cannaregio, Castello, San Marco, Dorsoduro, San Polo and Santa Croce. The only road into Venice that you can use in your hire car is the N11 from Mestre, which carries you can your hire car over the causeway to the Tronchetto and Piazzale Roma in Venice, where there are car parks to leave you hire car and venture off on foot. You can walk to most places in Venice itself, and take a trip on the waterbus to any of the islands. Of course you hire car comes into its own when exploring the sights around Venice. The city of Padua or Padova lies to the west of Venice in your hire car. For more information on what you might see and do while on a trip to Padua or Padova in your hire car from Venice, please see our Padua / Padova Car Hire link. To the southwest of Venice in your hire car the conical Euganean Hills, remnants of long-extinct volcanoes, rise abruptly out of the surrounding plain. The Abano Terme and Montegrotto Terme have hot water springs bubbling up out of the ground which you can visit in your hire car while on a trip from Venice. There are also scores of establishments offering thermal treatments here, ranging from mud baths to immersion in the hot sulphurated waters, perfect for a relaxing rest from travelling in your hire car. Another place to visit in your hire car from Venice is Treviso to the north. For more information on what you might see and do while on a trip to Treviso in your hire car from Venice, please see our Treviso Car Hire link. Follow the N309 in your hire car south along the coast to get to Rimini. For more information on what you might see and do while on a trip to Rimini in your hire car from Venice, please see our Rimini Car Hire link. Following the cost in the opposite direction in your hire car in the A13 will take you to Trieste. For more information on what you might see and do while on a trip to Trieste in your hire car from Venice, please see our Trieste Car Hire link. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italyy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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