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Venetian Islands, Florida

The Venetian Islands are a chain of artificial islands in Biscayne Bay in the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, Florida.

Venetian Islands, Florida
Venetian Islands, Florida · Daniel Di Palma
The place

The Venetian Islands are a chain of artificial islands in Biscayne Bay in the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, Florida. The islands are, from west to east: Biscayne Island (Miami), San Marco Island (Miami), San Marino Island, Di Lido Island, Rivo Alto Island, and Belle Isle. Flagler Monument Island remains an uninhabited picnic island, originally built in 1920 as a memorial to railroad pioneer Henry Flagler. The islands are connected by bridges from the Miami mainland to Miami Beach.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Venetian Islands, Florida

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Kaseya Center

    Kaseya Center is a multi-purpose arena on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. The arena is home to the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association.

    2.9 km · sports and entertainment arena in Miami, Florida, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Miami Tower

    The Miami Tower is a 47-story, landmark office skyscraper in Miami, Florida, United States. It is located in central Downtown.

    3.7 km · skyscraper in Miami, Florida, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    South Beach

    South Beach, is a neighborhood in Miami Beach, Florida. It is located east of Miami between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

    2.7 km · neighborhood in Miami Beach, Florida, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pérez Art Museum Miami

    Pérez Art Museum Miami —officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, it became known as the Miami Art Museum from 1996 until it was renamed in 2013 upon the opening of its new building designed by Herzog & de Meuron at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard.

    4 km · art museum in Miami · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Freedom Tower

    The Freedom Tower is a building in Miami, Florida. It was designed by Schultze and Weaver and is currently used as a contemporary art museum and a central office to different disciplines in the arts associated with Miami Dade College.

    3.1 km · historic skyscraper in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Marquis Residences

    Marquis is a skyscraper in Miami, Florida, United States. It is located in northeastern Downtown, on Biscayne Bay along the west side of Biscayne Boulevard.

    3 km · skyscraper in Miami · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Miami Arena

    Miami Arena was an indoor arena located in Miami, Florida. The venue served as the home of the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association and the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League.

    3.6 km · arena in Florida, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Miami Dade College

    Miami Dade College is a public college located in Miami, Florida, United States. Established in 1960, MDC operates eight campuses and numerous outreach centers throughout Miami-Dade County.

    3.3 km · public college in Miami, Florida, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bayfront Park

    Bayfront Park is a 32-acre public, urban park in the Central Business District of Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay.

    3.1 km · urban park in Miami, Florida, USA · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Wells Fargo Center

    The Wells Fargo Center is part of the Metropolitan Miami complex in the central business district of Downtown Miami, Florida. It was completed in 2010 and is one of the top twenty tallest buildings in Miami.

    3.6 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Venetian Islands, Florida

Airports
Miami (MIA), 13 km · Fort Lauderdale Hollywood (FLL), 31 km · President Donald J. Trump (DJT), 99 km
Stations
MiamiCentral, 3.8 km · Miami Seaplane Base, 1.7 km
  • West Palm Beach → Venetian Islands, Florida
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · $9–13
  • Fort Myers → Venetian Islands, Florida
    195 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · $20–28
  • Orlando → Venetian Islands, Florida
    328 km · quickest by air, 4h 29m · $160–240
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Venetian Islands, Florida

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Venetian Islands, Florida. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMiami-Opa Locka Executive Airport offers charter flights to the Miami area.
  • Get inShared Taxi/Shuttle Service- For a cheaper ride to your destination in South Beach, you can opt to use a "shared taxi/shuttle service".

From Wikivoyage: Miami Beach, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,158 km
  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,208 km
  3. 03
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,408 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,690 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,739 km

If you know how people move in Venetian Islands, Florida – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Venetian Islands, Florida

Venetian Islands, Florida is 4 km from Miami, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Fisher Islandneighborhood on an island by the same name in Miami, Florida3.7 km
  • Overtownhuman settlement in Miami, Florida, United States of America4 km
  • Brickell Keyhuman settlement in Miami, Florida, United States of America3.7 km
  • Knight FoundationAmerican philanthropic organization that funds grants for arts, journalism, research, and community development3.4 km
  • Buena Vistaneighborhood in Miami, Florida, United States4 km