Venice walking tour (VW01)

Venice walking tourDuration: 3 hours
- -0900am Divine Italy private guide will pick you up at the reception of your Hotel. Visit St. Mark's Square and embark on a journey to discover one of the most mysterious and romantic cities in the world. Dominating the Piazza with its fairytale facade, St. Mark's Basilica is the ultimate symbol of Venice's former glory, exhibiting influences from Byzantine, Western European, and Eastern architecture all due to the city's powerful seafaring past. Doge's Palace, once home to the Doge and a splendid example of the Venetian gothic architecture. Visit the courtyard and the loggias, the Doge's apartment and the institutional chambers before crossing the famous Ponte dei Sospiri ( the Bridge of Sighs), a corridor that connects the Palazzo Ducale with Palazzo delle Prigioni, a prison built in the late 16th century to house petty criminals. At the end of the tour, your guide can leave you close to a glass factory near the square where you can admire a "mastro vetraio" giving a demonstration of his art. (Glass blower). In alternative, you can choose to take a relaxing gondola ride for 30/40 minutes at an extra cost. Please ask our office for a quote . Please expect to pay local admission fees for sites to be visited cash to the guide.
- - 1200am end of tour