poldy ha scritto:
> Well Dolomites leaves from Santa Lucia but takes almost 4 hours to get
> to Cortina. So that's kind of out for a day trip.
There's no more train to Cortina, because railway closed on the sixties
of the last century.
The dead branch of the old railway (going to Dobbiaco, in the past), now
stops at Calalzo.
You need a Bus to go to Cortina from there, so all together (slow old
railway, many changes) the 4 hours travel.
I think is better, maybe, to rent a car, but beware week ends, mainly on
return way (Sunday afternoon) and in summer and winter seasons: queues
everywhere.
> I just put in Venice to Verona and they only listed Mestre. Yes I would
> have to go from near the Ponte Rialto to the train station.
From Venezia Santa Lucia (or Venezia SL on the timetables) you can go
to Ponte di Rialto and also to Piazza San Marco without vaporetto (good
and not too long walking journey, without big luggages, obviously...).
> The third one they list is Villafranca di Verona.
Villafranca is a village at 15 Km from Verona.
The name is Villafranca 'DI VERONA' to distinguish from others
'Villafranca'.
I know it very well: I do there my service in the army :-(.
> Anyways, for a day trip, maybe Padua (which I assume is Padova by
> another name?) and then onto Verona and then back to Venice sounds more
> like a manageable day.
True.
Padua (Padova in Italian) is a short journey from Venice/Venezia: around
30 minutes, by train.
On the same railway line, Verona is around 1 hour from Padova.
Starting from Venezia SL you will find Venezia Mestre (Mestre is the
mainland half-town of Venezia) (10 minutes), Padova (30 minutes),
Vicenza (1 hour) and Verona (1 1/2 hours).
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