Venezia Trip Overview
Enjoy this 2-hour walking tour, and we’ll reveal the mysteries of this former Mediterranean Maritime Republic.
Face the incredible ingenuity of this city built on the water of a lagoon. Pass in front of the famous Bridge of Sighs. This bridge takes its name from the sigh of the prisoners when they saw Venice for the last time. Did you know that this prison hosted the famous Casanova in 1755. Then, observe the view of the Grand Canal, its small canals and its famous gondolas.
From there, through the “calli” cobbled streets, enjoy the lively life of the Venetian people. From the canal, see the house of Mozart, the place where the talented composer lived. Also find the Fenice theater and the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. Near the Rialto Bridge, find the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, once a warehouse for German goods, it is now a sumptuous shopping center. Explore and learn from Titian’s paintings, as you’ll go through the Frari Church and the Academy Gallery, just outside.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Venezia, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Enjoy this 2-hour walking tour, and we’ll reveal the mysteries of this former Mediterranean Maritime Republic.
Face the incredible ingenuity of this city built on the water of a lagoon. Pass in front of the famous Bridge of Sighs. This bridge takes its name from the sigh of the prisoners when they saw Venice for the last time. Did you know that this prison hosted the famous Casanova in 1755. Then, observe the view of the Grand Canal, its small canals and its famous gondolas.
From there, through the “calli” cobbled streets, enjoy the lively life of the Venetian people. From the canal, see the house of Mozart, the place where the talented composer lived. Also find the Fenice theater and the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. Near the Rialto Bridge, find the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, once a warehouse for German goods, it is now a sumptuous shopping center. Explore and learn from Titian’s paintings, as you’ll go through the Frari Church and the Academy Gallery, just outside.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
Piazza San Marco is in the heart of Venice. It contains its most famous buildings such as St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace. Napoleon called it “the world’s most beautiful drawing room”. Piazza San Marco was established during the ninth century, but adopted its current size and form in 1177, and was paved one hundred years later.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Venice, Venice, Veneto
Pass in front of the famous Bridge of Sighs. It is is one of the most known, photographed and admired landmarks of Venice.
The “Ponte dei Sospiri” or “Bridge of Sighs” is an enclosed limestone bridge in baroque style located next to the Doge’s Palace in Venice. Venice is always described as a romantic city. Some say it is the most romantic city in the world. Therefore, it’s not a surprise that this bridge, thanks also to its evocative name, is so appreciated by couples who stop to take a picture of themselves kissing in front of it.
However, there is something you might want to know: the sighs the bridge refers to are not of love, but of resignation and despair! In fact, for some, the Bridge of Sighs was the last bridge they would ever cross…
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Canale Grande, Via Gioacchino Rossini 8, 34132, Trieste Italy
Marvel the view of the Grand Canal, its small canals and its famous gondolas. The Grand Canal is lined on either side by palaces, churches, hotels, and other public buildings in Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance styles. Grand Canal, Italian Canale Grande, main waterway of Venice, Italy, following a natural channel that traces a reverse-S course from San Marco Basilica to Santa Chiara Church and divides the city into two parts.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Venice, Venice, Veneto
From Grand Canal, through the “calli” cobbled streets, enjoy the lively life of the Venetian people. In Venice, calli, large calle, the diminutive, callette or calleselle are the streets, the streets that intersect the city forming the complicated maze in which it is easy to get lost.
The width of the streets can vary from 0.60 mt. the destination to 6/8 meters of larger, that is precisely why they are called “Calle Larga”: Calle Larga San Marco, Calle Larga XXII Marzo.
In ancient times throughout the city was privately owned, but when they were granted permission to build new buildings, the Republic forced the owners to leave a passage, which became public, between a property and the other. For this reason, the distance between the houses was bare minimum, even on some occasions the houses were larger as a part of the road was projected onto the road itself.
Stop At: Teatro La Fenice, Campo San Fantin San Marco 1965, 30124 Venice Italy
Stop near Venice’s opera house, La Fenice Theatre, built in 1792, became a major Italian music centre. The premieres of Gioachino Rossini’s Tancredi (1813) and Guiseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (1851) and La Traviata (1853) at La Fenice were witnessed by their composers.…
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Campo de la Salute Dorsoduro 1, 30123 Venice Italy
Find the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute is one of the best known in Venice, whose dome is visible from all over the city. It was constructed to celebrate the end of the plague in 1631.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy
The Ponte di Rialto (Rialto Bridge) is the true heart of Venice. The current structure was built in just three years, between 1588 and 1591, as a permanent replacement for the boat bridge and three wooden bridges that had spanned the Grand Canal at various times since the 12th Century. It remained the only way to cross the Grand Canal on foot until the Accademia Bridge was built in 1854.
The Rialto Bridge’s 7.5-meter (24-foot) arch was designed to allow passage of galleys, and the massive structure was built on some 12,000 wooden pilings that still support the bridge more than 400 years later. The architect, Antonio da Ponte, competed against such eminent designers as Michelangelo and Palladio for the contract.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Polo, 3072, 30125 Venice Italy
The church with the full Italian name “Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari” is a large and famous Gothic church in Venice.
The church of Frari is famous for its famous paintings and sculptures.
Some of the many works of art in the Frari Church in Venice are well known. These include two paintings by the world-famous painter Titian from the beginning of the 16th century. They are the gigantic painting “Assumption” (size almost 25 m², also called Assunta) and the altarpiece “Madonna of the house Pesaro”.
Also the grave of the artist Titian is worth seeing in Frari Basilica. The graves of some important Doge’s are in the Frari Basilica as well: a Doge was a head of state.
