Federico’s place is a wonderful two-bedroom, two-bathroom private retreat in the heart of Venice. Everything in Venice is closer than you’d think from looking at a map, and the apartment is a quick 10 minute walk from either the water taxi or train station. Since there are no cars allowed in ‘downtown’ Venice, it’s very quiet. The only sounds are the taxis and gondoliers going along the canal out your front door, as well as a fair amount of foot traffic on its way to San Marco square and the Rialto Bridge. All of Venice is very busy with pedestrians, but the location of the apartment is good and on more of a side street canal. The only ‘issue’ is the requirement to follow fairly strict local rules for disposal of garbage/recycling. On the appropriate day you can either take it out yourself between 6am-8am or wait for the collectors to ring your doorbell some time before noon. This is no fault of Federico’s though, it’s simply the local regime that needs to be followed. Overall we absolutely love it and had a great stay!