How to find an address in venice?

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xalynn

This is the best I can do for now, and I hope it's useful.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=489+Giudecca,+Venice&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.564064,56.601563&ie=UTF8&ll=45.430624,12.325501&spn=0.013643,0.027637&z=15&iwloc=addr

If you zoom in to the map, you can see the numbering system of this island is actually pretty systematical, so I guess it's most likely to be the correct location.

* Update *

If you're talking about Venice in general, then I'm sorry to have to tell you that the system is pretty much non-existent, in comparison to say, system in US. There is no street names, and addresses are given (as you've seen) is based on the section of the city (ie sestieri) with a haphazardly given number.

Orientation is difficult for visitors, and I've been there a few times where each time, I just ended up putting away the maps that I have and walked around randomly. Then again, I also wasn't looking for any addresses in particular, so I can afford to do that.

This is what one website says about it:

"Orientation begins with a fundamental comprehension of the sestieri, the sections of the city. Within each area, there are no individual street numbers but merely one long and haphazard sequence of numbers (roughly 6000 per sestiere). Every building, however, is also located on some type of a "street" - fondamente, catti, campi, salizzade, canali, rii, ponti, and rii terra, (foundations, narrow streets, squares, paved roads, channels, small channels, bridges, and old channels that are now streets, respectively). To add to the confusion, it is often unclear which sestiere you are in at any given moment, as the boundaries are not clearly indicated. "

This next link is quite nice and if you scroll down it gives you explanation on the lexicons of the "types of streets" in Venice.
(http://www.aloverofvenice.com/HiddenCorners/HiddenCorners.html )

MMdoll

I have found it on google maps....check it again!!!

zafir

It's an apartment block on Giudecca island, here's the link on Google maps: http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=venezia%20sestiere%20giudecca%20489&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

EDIT: Venetian buildings do not have street numbers as we know them, ie they do not have consecutive numbers in each street. 489 could be in one street and 487 in another.

So 489 is the building (street) numbe, and the street is at right angles to the Fondamenta del Ponte Piccolo. Nearest vaporetto stop is Palanca. The link I provided shows you exactly where it is in Giudecca.

Commedia Dantesca

Checking the words "Isola della Giudecca 489" on Google I found this:

http://veneto.pages-local.com/AMMINISTRAZIONI_IMMOBILIARI_CONDOMINIALI_(10)(VENEZIA)(130)(CULTURA-ARTE-E-STORIA).html

Apparently it is a building called:
Condominio (=building) Edificio E8 Ex Area Junghans
Isola della Giudecca 489
30133 Venezia

I don't know if it can help you, there's also a map.

Stan

If you have a GPS, I've found the coordinates for you. From the train station take the 41 or the 2 vaporetto to Palanca on Giudecca. Your walking distance is only 90 meters from the vaporetto stop; head west from the stop for 30 meters to Calle del Forno and turn left. Your destination is about 60 meters down that path.

45Â°25'33.89"N, 12Â°19'32.62"E

GoldenBoy

hi i'm italian...
you can go in this website PagineGialle.it
try

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