Public transport without roads

I haven't seen a car since arriving. Even the paramedics and police both travel by boat. The main form of transport is the vaporetto, a fleet of public boats that follow a network of stops throughout the city.

They can be painfully slow but it is a convenient way to see the buildings than line the city's canals. When they pull into a stop, the attendant hurls a thick rope around the mooring bollards and calls out the name of the stop.