Tronchetto

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Tronchetto, rarely Isola Nuova, is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon, which is located in the west of the city is the Santa Croce district belonging. It is separated by 60 to 180 meters wide Canale Tronchetto from Piazzale Tronchetto. Through reclamation and landfills, the island has reached a length of 690 m and a maximum width of 220 m. The area is approximately 18 hectares, more 184 281 m².

Accommodate the strong growth in travel and the limited possibility of the flood car in the two car parks at Piazzale Roma, you saw himself forced to create an alternative. This was found decades ago, as Tronchetto was just a large parking lot. In the last years of the 20th century, created by the construction of large parking decks more surface space for all those for whom the accommodation of their vehicles in the car parks of Mestre ( opposite the train station ) and the trip to Venice by train was too cumbersome.

The island can be reached from the mainland coming over the Ponte della Libertà and on the range of Stazione Marittima, by traveling between Port Authority ( Capitaneria di Porto ) and fish market ( Mercato ittico ) to the west. Tronchetto is connected to the city by several Vaporettolinien, as well as taxi boats. Also lay there from the car ferry to Lido. To Piazzale Roma with an intermediate station at the ferry port was developed by Doppelmayr a 822 m long funicular, the People Mover, built in an average of seven meters. The journey time is being reduced to three minutes.