Today, there are numerous attractions in Venice, such as St Mark's Basilica（圣马可教
堂）, the Grand Canal（大运河）, and the Piazza San Marco（圣马可广 场）, to name a few. The Lido di Venezia （丽都的迪瑞古奇）is also a
Venice is one of the most important
tourist destinations in the world, due to the city's being one of the world's greatest and most beautiful cities of art. Ttourists a day (2007 estimate). In 2006, it was the world's 28th most internationally visited city, with 2.927 million international arrivals that year.
The classical Venetian boat is the gondola （两头尖的平底船）, although it is now mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies. Many gondolas are lushly appointed with crushed velvet（天鹅绒的）seats and Persian（波斯的） rugs. Less well-known is the smaller sandolo. The main transportation means are motorised waterbuses (vaporetti), which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city's islands, and private boats. The only gondolas still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges
