Tronchetto
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| Waters | Venice lagoon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 26 '27 " N , 12 ° 18' 17" E | |
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| surface | 18.4 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Tronchetto , now rarely called Isola Nuova , is an artificial island in the Venetian lagoon to the west of the city and part of the Santa Croce sestiere . It is separated from Piazzale Tronchetto by the Canale del Tronchetto, which is 60 to 180 meters wide . Through drainage and backfill, the island has reached a length of 690 m and a maximum width of 220 m. The area is around 18 hectares , more precisely 184,281 m².
Due to the strong increase in private traffic and the limited ability to accommodate the flood of cars in the two parking garages on Piazzale Roma , it was necessary to create an alternative. These were found decades ago when Tronchetto was just a large parking lot. In the last years of the 20th century, the construction of large parking decks created additional parking space for all those who found it too difficult to park their vehicles in the Mestre car parks (opposite the train station) and to travel to Venice by train.
The island can be reached from the mainland via the Ponte della Libertà and after the area of the Stazione Marittima , by driving west between the port authority ( Capitaneria di Porto ) and the fish market ( Mercato ittico ). Tronchetto is connected to the city by several vaporetto lines and taxi boats. The car ferry to the Lido also leaves there . To Piazzale Roma with an intermediate station at the ferry port, the Doppelmayr company built an 822 m long funicular - the People Mover - at an average height of seven meters. This reduces the travel time to three minutes.
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- ↑ Venice in Italy ( Memento of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Gondola through Venice on stilts , in: Der Standard, November 9, 2009.