SECRET VENICE: WALKING TOUR AND GONDOLA RIDE
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Highlights
Treat yourself to a historical walking tour from Piazza San Marco to the Rialto Bridge, passing through the most important Venetian attractions.
We will accompany you through streets, fields and buildings on an unusual journey through history, discovering how much our daily life was influenced by the Venetians. You will be able to immerse yourself in real city life by savoring the most unusual corners of Venice.
During a short introductory walking tour, as you reach the gondola, your guide will tell you the secrets of the gondola and the gondoliers.
Then enjoy a gondola ride crossing the Grand Canal and its smaller waterways, reachable only with this special boat. While the guide shows you the buildings overlooking the Grand Canal, you will admire the water entrance of the Teatro dell'Opera della Fenice, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the magnificent Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute and you will enjoy a breathtaking view of Piazza San Marco from the exclusive water perspective.
What is there to know?
At the end of the tour, you will receive a QR code to download a digital map to your phone with 2D images of Venice from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. You will be able to compare some of the most fascinating places and discover how they looked in different eras compared to today. Just think that the Rialto bridge was once a drawbridge and in place of the Doge's Palace there once stood an authentic medieval castle!
An essential and complete tour to understand Venice and fully enjoy all its beauty!
Duration: approximately 3 hours (2 hours of shared walking tour of Venice with local and expert guide, 15 minutes of introductory walking tour to the gondola experience and 30 minutes of shared gondola ride)
Languages:
Walking tour: English, Italian, Spanish, German and French (depending on the selected time slot)
Gondola: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian (live commentary)
Follow an expert guide through the most hidden neighborhoods of Venice and then discover the city's romantic canals aboard the traditional gondola.
