The Museum of 18th Century is set in one of the most beautiful palaces on the Grand Canal in Venice, Ca' Rezzonico. The Rezzonico family was rich merchants who became part of the new aristocracy. This is where you can admire the splendors of that age, looking at the masterpieces by Tiepolo, Guardi, Longhi, Rosalba Carriera, Giambattista Pazzetta and Canaletto as well as its original furniture, elegant staircases and large rooms and above all, the beautiful ballroom.
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Admire the lights playing on the water and listen to your guide telling you stories as you glide along the Grand Canal, the world’s most gracious highway. See the spectacular architecture of the captivating Palaces, all with their own stories to tell. On this Tour you will savour the real “facade” of the city far from the tumultuous bustle of the busy canals. See the beautiful and imposing palaces and churches that line its banks and learn how it has developed over the centuries into the "most beautiful street in the world".
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Begin your day with a short walk towards St. Mark's Square where you will meet your tour guide and board your reserved motorboat docked at St. Mark's Square's waterfront and embark on your visit first to the Island of Murano, where you can watch the antique art of making glass in a glass blowing factory. Then one proceeds to the characteristic Island of Burano, with its strong colors and light contrast, a fisher island and renowned for the lace making technique. Lastly visit the Island of Torcello, the first settlement in the lagoon, with its old Cathedral and its atmosphere of remote venation past.
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This is a full day tour of the beautiful hill country of Veneto in north-eastern Italy. Framed by the Dolomites, it is a place whose peace, tranquillity and natural beauty will provide you with memories that will last a lifetime. Enjoy a relaxing day in the beautiful hills of the Veneto near Venice, Italy. Stroll around enchanting villages and towns; savour the delicious cuisine and famous wines of the Veneto. This tour provides you with an intimate experience of the "Secret Italy". Travelling at a relaxed pace, along scenic back-roads, with plenty of time to enjoy each destination, it will feel as if this tour was designed just for you.
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Today your English-speaking tour guide will meet you at the hotel lobby or at another designated place, which was agreed upon previously. Embark on a guided visit to the historical centre of the city and its monuments. The itinerary includes St. Mark's Square, the Basilica (Interior visit may be possible depending on the lines), Doge's Palace, Prisons and Bridge of Sights. The tour lasts about 2 hours. The tour includes a private English speaking guide and entrance fee to the Doge Palace.
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Today your English-speaking tour guide will meet you at the hotel lobby or at another designated place, which was agreed upon previously. Board your private reserved motorboat docked at St. Mark's Square's waterfront and embark on your visit first to the Island of Murano, where you can watch the antique art of making glass in a glass blowing factory. Then one proceeds to the characteristic Island of Burano, with its strong colors and light contrast, a fisher island and renowned for the lace making technique. Lastly visit the Island of Torcello, the first settlement in the lagoon, with its old Cathedral and its atmosphere of remote venetion past. The tour lasts about 4 hours.
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The tour takes you to the famous Rialto Bridge crossing over it to visit the market area and Venice’s first church, the Church of San Giacomo di Rialto consecrated 421AD. You continue to the Erberia, the fruit and vegetable market and then to the Pescheria the fish market. After the visit, continue the tour by boarding your private gondola, Venice’s famed canal boats, crossing over the Grand Canal to Santa Sofia, from this point walking the Strada Nova or new street. Other sites visited on this tour include the Jewish Ghetto, Scuola Della Misericordia, the Gothic Church of Madonna dell' Orto among other spectacular sites.
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Embark on a guided visit to the historical center of the city and its monuments walking through the typical lanes of medieval Venice. At the Gothic Frari Church the guide will show you masterpieces by famous artists Tintoretto, Tiziano and Bellini. After the visit a gondola ride takes you along the Grand Canal and some of the lesser but interesting canals.
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Today your English-speaking tour guide will meet you at the hotel lobby or at another designated place, which was agreed upon previously. Embark on a guided visit to the historical centre of the city and its monuments, walking through the typical lanes of the old medieval Venice, you will reach the gothic Frari Church, where the guide will show you paintings by Tintoretto, Tiziano e Bellini. After the visit you will take a gondola ride along the Grand Canal and the back canals.
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Frari church, masterpieces by Bellini, Titian and Canova, the Merchants of Venice, a prison for tax evaders, the old red-light district of Venice, some of the oldest houses in Venice and quaint bridges. Well off-the-beaten track. A rich and stimulating itinerary - Venice at its best: this is a walk of wonder and discovery of the real Venice, through its past and also its present. Enjoy a guided walk through a labyrinth of streets and narrow passageways in the old artisans quarters of Venice and listen to numerous stories of the illustrious merchants and their acts of cruelty.
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One of the great religious buildings of the entire world, the Basilica was begun in 830 to house St. Mark's bones, which had been smuggled out of Alexandria. It started out as a small, modest chapel and, over the intervening 1200 years, it has become one of the most extravagant and fascinating structures anywhere. Also included in this itinerary is a visit to the renowned Golden Altarpiece. You'll see Piazza San Marco, which Napoleon called "the finest drawing room in Europe." The guide will tell you all about the bell tower, the clock with its two giant bronze Moors, and the symbol of the city, the winged lion, who gazes eternally out across the Grand Canal into the Lagoon.
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Over the centuries Venice has provided superior quality handmade products that were exported all over the world for the use of the privileged few. Today the simple word “Venice” still conjures up an atmosphere of sensuous luxury, sophisticated elegance and a myriad of joyful tactile and visual sensations. Far from beaten tracks, with the assistance of your guide, you will discover and make tours the “pearls” of Venice’s top handicraft tradition.
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Our day in Ravenna includes the visit to all the major sites of the famous mosaics: San Vitale, Galla Placidia Mausoleum, San Apollinare Nuovo and San Apollinare in Classe. In addition, we'll visit a recently opened archaeological site where a mosaic from an ancient Roman home was been recently discovered. Accompanied by a local guide in Ravenna, explore the fantastic world of colored glass tesseras and by the end of the day you'll be able to decipher the encrypted message of the mystical world that you find represented in churches and mausoleums of the town.
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Dorsoduro is on the south side of Venice. There are many possible walks you can do in this area, all including historically important places as well as more popular spots. This itinerary takes you into some solitary corners of the Dorsoduro district, Venice’s elegant “Rive Gauche”. On this tour you will visit San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, the Renaissance church of San Sebastian, and Zattere, the sunny promenade along the Giudecca Canal among other beautiful sites.
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Begin your day with a short walk towards St. Mark's Square where you will meet your tour guide and board your reserved motorboat docked at St. Mark's Square's waterfront and embark on your tour of the Grand Canal – Venice’s most important canal. View impressive buildings, which line this canal. The magnificent palaces will fascinate you, while passing under the Rialto Bridge. Your return trip will be along the Giudecca Canal, admiring masterpieces such as the Churches of Redentore and S. Giorgio Maggiore.
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A great American art museum with distinctive Venetian charm, Ca’ Venier dei Leoni, Peggy Guggenheim’s palace on the Grand Canal, enshrines forever her world-famous collection of modern masterpieces , including an important works by Picasso, Braque, De Chirico, Ernst, Mirò, Calder, Moore, Kandinsky, Pollock and many others.
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This leisurely boat tour touching the main islands of the Venetian Lagoon, will take you back to the origins of Venice: Torcello, isolated in the middle of the water landscape, has a millenarian Cathedral with awesome mosaics. Burano, like many Mediterranean fishing villages, has tiny, brightly coloured houses-a treat for photographers and a friendly, peaceful atmosphere. We also stop at Murano, renowned for its artistic glass production.
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The Ghetto (originally a Venetian word meaning foundry) was established in 1516 as a segregated living area for the Jews of Venice. In that year there were approximately 1300 Jews living in Venice. Over time the neighbourhood population grew to a maximum of 5,000 in about 1650. About 250 Jews still live in Venice and only two Jewish families still live in the Ghetto. Today, there is a Jewish Museum in the Ghetto, which provides short tours of two or three of the synagogues.
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The only way to visit the unusual and fascinating corners of Venice off the beaten track and where time seems to have stood still centuries ago. The guide leads you through a labyrinth of little canals, and sites of historic and artistic interest: Campo Santa Maria Formosa surrounded by its rich palaces; Campo SS.Giovanni e Paolo with its majestic Gothic church and equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio (1481), among many other interesting sites.
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The deluxe private tour features 3 villas by Italian Renaissance Architect Andrea Palladio. Villa Emo, Villa Barbaro and Villa Foscari (also known as La Malcontenta). A visit to the enchanting village of Asolo is on this itinerary, as well as lunch in a local restaurant (lunch not included in the package) where we will enjoy the delicious regional cuisine and some of the local wines. Providing the perfect interlude between villas, we'll visit the enchanting village of Asolo.
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The spread of the aristocratic villas along the course of the Brenta from Malcontenta to Stra was a phenomenon that was a sign of the power of Venice for a couple of centuries between 1500 and 1700.It showed the propensity of its ruling class for the most lavish theatricality even in its moment of decline. A country villa's visual impact, including its lodges and gardens, had to be strong; indeed it had to strike the visitors and travelers by its extraordinary artistic and natural beauty harmoniously merging with the architectural features.
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Begin your day with a short walk towards St. Mark's Square where you will meet your tour guide. Embark on a guided visit to the historical centre of the city and its monuments. The itinerary includes St. Mark's Square, the Basilica (Interior visit may be possible depending on the lines), Doge's Palace, Prisons and Bridge of Sights. The tour lasts about 2 hours. The tour includes a private guide and entrance fee to the Doge Palace.
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The link that exists between the Galleries of the Accademia and the city of Venice is strong. The Galleries in fact contain many works of art, which came from churches and schools and from public offices of authority. A visit to the city is therefore a necessary extension to that of the art collections, or vice versa, for only in this way can the visitor fully understand how and why the painters adopted certain solutions based on the destination of a painting and its meaning.
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Explore some of the hidden gardens of the city and learn the history that brought the locals to build gardens in such a difficult environment. Gardens in Venice come as a surprise and although many palaces own their private small garden, your impression while walking around is that of a city of stone. Gardens played an important role, both functional and social, in times "gone by" and these aspects will be discussed during the tour.
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Begin your day with a short walk towards St. Mark's Square where you will meet your tour guide. Embark on a guided visit to the historical centre of the city and its monuments, walking through the typical lanes of the old medieval Venice, you will reach the gothic Frari Church, where the guide will show you paintings by Tintoretto, Tiziano e Bellini. After the visit you will take a gondola ride along the Grand Canal and the back canals.
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