The Special Tour of Venice - Venice in your hands

This is the right tour for you if you don't have much time to spend in Venice and you want to make the most of it

Option 1: Four-hour tour

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Three-hours walking tour and one-hour boat tour

You'll start walking tour with your expert Venice tourist guide in St Mark's Square where you will visit the doge's Palace, the old seat of the Venetian government. Your guide will tell you all about the history of Venice and will show you the magnificent halls of the Palace decorated by the most important artists of the Renaissance such as Tintoretto Veronese, Palma il Giovane, and the end you'll cross the Bridge of Sighs and will visit the old prisons. After the palace your guide will take you to a St Mark's Basilica (with your tourist guide no lines!)* where you will admire the fantastic golden Byzantine mosaics.

Then a nice boat (a water taxi) will be waiting for you and you'll start the Grand Canal boat tour. A unique experience, as Venice seen from the canals seems different and, in the boat, your private tourist guide will point out many things concerning past and present Venice, such as the Grand Canal as the main Venetian "road", Venice as an old trade centre, palaces, warehouses, and current environmental problems. Eventually the boat will leave you and your guide besides the Frari church in San Polo district, far away from the busy city centre. We'll spend the last hour walking around the charming characteristic Venetian alleys (calli and fondamente) where your guide will tell you about the Venetian style of life. The walking tour will finish beside the Rialto Bridge, in the heart of the city.