Private Tour: Venice Half-Day Walking Tour
Description
Discover Venice your way with this 3-hour private tour led by a professional guide. Tailored to your preferences (based on the details you provide when booking), the flexible itinerary allows you to experience world-renowned attractions like the Rialto Fish Market, or explore hidden gems such as the Cannaregio Quarter. Enjoy a stop at a traditional bar for wine and a snack while benefiting from the personalized insights of your private guide.
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Itinerary
Rialto was the commercial heart of the ancient Republic of Venice. Discover the history of one of the most iconic symbols of Venice.
Rialto market is one of the most authentic parts of the city: it sells fresh fish, vegetables and fruit that Venetians buy everyday for their homes.
Frari's gothic Church is one of the most majestic buildings in the city. Inside you'll see exquisite artworks by Titian and Bellini, as well as an imposing funeral monument by Canova.
San polo is a quiet Square where you can have a taste of the authentic side of Venice.
The church was erected by the now-defunct religious order the "Humiliati" in the mid-14th century and is located in the beautiful district of Cannaregio.
Discover the most authentic district of Venice: Cannaregio.
La Fenice thatre is one of the most important theatres of Italy, staging more than one hundred opera performances per year, a major symphonic season conducted by prominent conductors from across the globe, the full cycles of symphonies by Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Mahler, a contemporary repertoire focused especially on Venetian artists such as Nono and Maderna, ballets, and chamber music concerts.
Hidden in a maze of streets and canals, very close to Campo Manin, appears an architectural gem characterized by a style that is among Renaissance, Gothic and Byzantine: the Scala Contarini del Bovolo.
In the 17th century Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the plague. As a votive offering for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health (or of Deliverance, Italian: Salute).
The Accademia Bridge is the only wooden bridge in Venice. From the top you can enjoy a great view of the Grand Canal and of the Salute Church.
The Church of San Zaccaria is a 15th-century former monastic church dedicated to St. Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist. Inside, one of the oldest crypts of the city.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
- This tour is accompanied by a tour hostess and can cover any kind of city sightseeing. Hostesses are not allowed to give precise historical and artistic explanation inside palaces and churches and give short information only
- Usually the hostess accompanies tourists along unknown parts of the city sharing stories
- San Marco square, Ducal Palace and the Basilica can not be visited on this tour
- Your tour guide cannot accompany you into any church or historical buildings
- On Sunday mornings it is not possible to enter any of the visited churches due to religious functions taking place. Rialto Market is closed every Sunday and Monday. These closures are beyond our control so no refunds or discounts will be issued
- If you're planning a day trip to Venice and staying outside the city, please note that an access fee will be required on certain dates.
Reviews(134)
Privately, that's wonderful! Graziella has adapted with enthusiasm and love in our journey! 1000% for her...
Our tour guide provided good information about the sights, sharing personal stories like where she grew up, her school, her best friend’s home, and other local details. However, it wasn’t quite what we expected—for the amount of money paid, the tour didn’t deliver the depth we hoped for. Advertised as about 3 hours, we finished in just 2, and it needed a bit more to feel complete.
Our guide Grazilla was wonderful. She provided us with lots of information in a delightful way. She tailored our walking tour to include places we asked about and showed us some of her favorites. Couldn't have asked for a better guide in Venice. Thank you!
Sara was amazing and so knowledgeable about the history, people and architecture. She answered our questions and was so easy going and pleasant.
Highly recommended, competent and friendly guide. A good time. Yes hopjnöjpnkväkcuviöbm
Sarah was a great guide, she walked us through areas of the city we would not have found on our own including the ghettos and a local bead makers shop. She gave a great recommendation for dinner, and got some nice pictures for us. Thank you!
Our guide Julia was outstanding, both informative and entertaining. Would recommend her very highly.
We saw some nice architecture and got a bit of nomenclature re: the streets. The guide was not very talkative although she did answer some questions for us. The review that mentioned the guide who pointed out her house and neighborhood must have had our guide. Not very interesting.
I loved our guide, Elisa. She showed us around some of the neighborhoods in Venice , as she grew up here. I was expecting to see other areas perhaps more “ touristy” but did not see them. We were disappointed… She told us she was not authorized to tour certain areas, & monuments???? St. Mark’s square was not allowed!! She was knowledgeable & we liked her but for the cost we did not get what we anticipated.
What a frustrating day. We did not get any prior communications via email, What's App, or text from the Tour company (unlike most other private tours), which should have been a warning sign. We got a little lost and had difficulties finding the meeting point in front of the travel agency since there was almost no signage. I tried calling the phone # on the reservation but nobody answered. We were about 20 minutes late. Nobody was there to meet us when we arrived, so we went into the Travel Agency that runs the tour. We were told there that the Viator meeting place instructions were incorrect, and to walk to the Royal Gardens by Piazza San Marco. When we got there, we were told that the original meeting place by the travel agency was correct, but now it was too late and we were considered no-shows. We were told that we would be refunded due to the incorrect instructions, but over a week later there has been no refund. Now if this was a group tour and we were late, I would understand. But for a PRIVATE tour to not make any attempt to contact us before the tour, or at the tour time since we weren't there is completely unacceptable and unlike any other tours we have ever booked. And then to be told to walked across the island to a different meeting place incorrectly was extra frustrating, especially when we were told we would get a refund which has not happened. Book at your own risk.
