Itinerary
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Stop At: Canal Grande, 30100 Venice Italy
The Grand Canal is the most important "street" in Venice that can be followed by ferry or gondola.
The Grand Canal divides the city centre into two parts, it is older than Venice for this reason the city was built following the path of the river.
One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into the basin at San Marco. It makes a large reverse-S shape through the central districts (sestieri) of Venice. It is 3.8 km (2.4 mi) long, and 30 to 90 m (98 to 295 ft) wide, with an average depth of 5 metres (16 feet).
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
Piazza San Marco often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square"). All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called campi ("fields"). The Piazzetta ("little Piazza/Square") is an extension of the Piazza towards the lagoon in its south east corner. The two spaces together form the social, religious and political centre of Venice and are commonly considered together.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Campanile di San Marco, Sestiere San Marco 328, 30124 Venice Italy
The Basilica di San Marco (St Mark’s Basilica) is the cathedral church of Venice. It is located in the Piazza San Marco, which has always been the center of Venetian public and religious life. The building’s structure dates back to the latter part of the 11th century. Much work has gone toward embellishing this, and the famous main façade has an ornamented roofline that is mostly Gothic.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Torre dell'Orologio, Piazza San Marco, Venice Italy
The Clock Tower in Venice is an early Renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco, at the entrance to the Merceria. It comprises a tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Ponte dei Sospiri, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30100 Venice Italy
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri) is one of the most particular bridge in Venice.
The Ponte dei Sospiri was built using white Istrian stone in 1602 to connect Palazzo Ducale to the Prigioni Nuove, the new Venetian prisons. It has the peculiarity to be entirely covered and is formed by two, wall-separated corridors, leading to and forth the prison.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy
In Venice we can count around 354 bridges. All these bridges were built to transportation issues but they add something special to the beauty of th city.
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice. Connecting the sestieri (districts) of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since at first it was built with two old ships and than in a wooden structure. The last reconstruction, dated 1591, is the one we can see today.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124 Venice Italy
The Doge's Palace is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Venetian Republic, opening as a museum in 1923. Today, it is one of the 11 museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Teatro La Fenice, Campo San Fantin San Marco 1965, 30124 Venice Italy
Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre", and in the history of opera as a whole. Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice became the site of many famous operatic premieres at which the works of several of the four major bel canto era composers – Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi – were performed.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Laguna di Venezia, Venice Italy
The Venetian Lagoon is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages, Laguna Veneta—cognate of Latin lacus, "lake"—has provided the English name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of salt water, a lagoon.
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Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia, 30121 Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy
3 hours(approx.)
Returns to original departure point
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : 614charlesb
Absolutely do not sign up for this tour. The guide was not at the meeting point at the designated time. On our way back to the Hotel I received a call that the guide was at the meeting point. We met the guide - who spoke really broken English and did not know the city of Venice at all. She used here eye phone for both directions and information. I knew more about a couple of sites than she did - when we could understand her. We said goodbye after 30 minutes of what was supposed to be a two hour walking tour. Romaetravel refused to refund my money and they were rude.
Do not sign up for this tour.
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Posted On : 2024-05-08
Posted By : K5327JMmichelea
THE DIRECTIONS IN THE EMAIL ARE NOT THE DIRECTIONS OF THE DAY!!! While our guide was very pleasant and we enjoyed him. We were late meeting him and missed the gondola ride- so we had to pay for that all over again.
We followed the meeting place directions in the email but the texted meeting place was over 30 minutes away. No one indicated in the text message that the meeting place was different.
Additionally, the new meeting place required us to navigate through all of Venice without ever having been there before. With the crowds and the complexity of the streets, this was unrealistic. Additionally, the GPS signal is limited on the streets.
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Posted On : 2024-03-16
Posted By : Gary_D
Loved walking all over the sights were wonderful , Venice is a nice place to visit , st Marcos square the 800 year old church
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Posted On : 2023-04-16
Posted By : George_B
I have a feeling that this review will never see the light of day. In the two weeks we've been in Italy this was our worst tour. From the start of this tour, we were almost running to stay up with the guide. Very little explanation of what we were seeing and the only times we stopped were when we told him we were stopping for pictures. After the hour forced march that we endured we were exhausted by the time we got to the gondola part of the tour. That tour was comprised of 40 minutes of standing in one spot while the guide yammered at us for forty minutes with most being spoken in Spanish. We speak English. The the gondola ride was 20 minutes. The ride was enjoyable, but the gondoliers were constantly yelling at each other talking. Nothing about what we were seeing. We were so discussed and disheartened about the tour we told our guide when we got back that we were done and asked him to return us back to the train station where we had started from. When he started walking, he didn't take the direct route (I showed on google maps), he went West from our location, where we ended up next to the bay. I didn't say anything because I thought he knew an easier way back. After walking along the bay for a while he turned back into the city, and we ended up crossing about ten bridges going toward the train station. Google maps showed that we were kind of meandering through the city. we finely got to a point where I recognized a dome on one of the churches. I told our guide I had things from there and he could go. He didn't seem real happy and asked me what we wanted him to do. I told him I didn't care, and I could find the train station from there. I did tip him because I thought it would be a good way to get rid of him
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Posted On : 2022-10-30
Posted By : Gail_C
2 hour walking tour of Venice with gondola ride. Spent first hour walking from the meeting place to the gondola. Hard to talk/hear as we had to keep moving amidst the crowds. Would have been better to set the meeting point closer to the gondola ride to maximize time to see places and hear. Liked the gondola ride.
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Posted On : 2022-08-21
Posted By : Miguel_V
Guide going too fast. No stops in between. Gondola ride was not available. I dropped off the tour in S Marcos. No rest brakes.
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Posted On : 2022-06-18
Posted By : Alfredo_G
The tour guide took his time with us and made it a more pleasant experience that's the 4 stars. The gondolas we did not get the singing one and the microphone started to interfere and did not get most of the information for this one 3 stars.
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Posted On : 2021-10-20
Posted By : Lori_D
We walked all over Venice and got to see a Banksy which was very important to a person in our group. We met Julian at the train station...make sure you get a store or someplace to meet in the e-mail the day before. He walked us to our gonodola ride. Our gondolier was not very nice but this is not Julian's fault. We told him and I believe he will pass on the information to his tour group. Even though we were there during the outbreak, we had a great time and really learned a lot about Venice.
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Posted On : 2020-03-07
Posted By : 145christyr
We totally enjoyed our tour through Venice. The guide was nice, informative and easy to understand. She even gave us a little more time in areas we were interested in seeing a little longer. Unfortunately, it was Christmas Day and the people they used for Gondola rides cancelled our ride. Not sure why, as there were Gondolas available all over the city, they all seemed to be working. They did offer to give us a partial refund, so that made it a little better, and we could have gotten a ride on our own had we chosen to do that.
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Posted On : 2020-01-05
Posted By : Trail229708
Julian was excellent. He was very engaged and knowledgeable. He spoke well and took us around Venice to the places we wanted to see.He made sure we got to the gondola and came back to get us and finish our tour. He assisted in getting us on water taxi and to the people mover as he lived nearby. The weather was perfect. Gondola ride was just prior to sunset and a great time for us to be on the gondola. Julian took pictures for us and then emailed them to us. Very nice touch. Would recommend Julian for the tour.
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Posted On : 2019-10-23
