Two different perspectives and ways to discover Venice are waiting for you on this 2-hour combined tour. A stroll to some picturesque and less-known areas of Venice and a traditional gondola ride, merged together to let you embrace the true Venetian atmosphere.
On the land part of the tour, your expert guide will lead you to discover some famous buildings such as La Fenice Opera House, as well as more curious and peculiar ones such as Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, with its elegant spiral staircase. La Fenice, unfortunately known for being repeatedly destroyed by fire and rebuilt, is the main opera house in the city and it hosted many concerts of great Italian composers like Rossini, Verdi, Bellini and Donizetti. At La Fenice Theatre you will visit its remarkable exteriors, restored several times and finally brought back to glory.
Then you’ll continue to the Rialto area, the oldest part of Venice and the one which still preserves the most genuine customs and traditions of Venice. In the heart of this area you’ll find the famous Rialto Bridge, with its unique staircase densely populated by many shops.
After this enchanting stroll through the narrow streets of Venice, the water part of the tour will start. On the opposite side of the well-known Harry's Bar, where a famous station for gondolas is located, your water journey will begin. The tour will let you discover the Basilica della Salute, one of the finest examples of Baroque architecture, which offers a diffent perspective view according to the point from which it is observed. The Basilica was offered to the Virgin Mary to pray for the eradication of the plague of the seventeenth century.
Moreover you'll have the opportunity to navigate through small, quaint, minor canals of Venice, leaving the more famous Grand Canal and heading to other important and majestic places. During the gondola ride you'll meet La Fenice theater again: having walked around it only a short time before, you will now see this famous theatre from another, different point of view.
This combined tour will offer you the extraordinary opportunity to enjoy a guided walk in Venice and a Venice gondola reservation to sense the true atmosphere of this incomparable city. Two distinct ways of living Venice, combined into a single tour to leave you unforgettable memories of your visit in Italy.