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Venice
Guided Tours
OUR
GUIDES
In Venice Today operates exclusively with native Venetian professional
guides who use all their experience to organize tailor-made visits throughout
all Venice, its villas and its lagoon. Doing their best to satisfy all
your needs for a memorable stay, however special they may be.
OUR
TOURS
Our tours are for small, private parties. We do not group different
people together. Our guide will meet you at your hotel in Venice, at
the time you choose. The tour will be entirely designed to meet your
interests, curiosities, and any requirements for seeing Venice. On request,
we can also provide assistance and guide services for educational programs
or cultural events.
HOW
TO BOOK
Select a tour among those shown on the righthand side of this page.
Specify date, number of participants, the hotel in which you'll be staying
in Venice, and write to us for reservations. One of our guides will
promptly reply and provide all the necessary information and details.
Should you need any advice about selecting a tour, feel free to contact
us, and we'll be happy to help you ! As soon as you confirm (that should
be at least two weeks before the tour), we'll send you your guide's
name and cell phone number. Book a tour guide in Venice and confirm
your reservation one week before your arrival!
BOOK HERE: guide@invenicetoday.com
Cost
and form of Payment
We charge 65 Euro/hour (1 EUR=1 US $; 0.60 GBP). Up to 15 people. Most
of the tours last 3 hours. So calculate 195 euros for a three hours
tour of Venice The Lagoon tour lasts 4-5 hours.
Entrance fees to museums, churches and transportation are not included.
You'll pay your guide directly in cash or travelers' cheques.
Museums
and Exhibitions
We
also conduct tours in the Museums: Doge's Palace, Academy Galleries,
Ca' Rezzonico, Ca' D'Oro, Correr Museums, Guggenheim Collection, Ca'
Mocenigo...
Would you like to visit the major art exhibitions in town with an expert?
Contact us and we'll provide you specialist. Our fee is 120 euros for
a two hour visit for a party up to 15 people.
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VENICE
GUIDED TOURS AVAILABLE
- NEW!
"CICHETI & NIZIOLETI"
A gourmet discovery tour in the bustling Rialto area. We'll drink
wine and eat "cicheti" (as to say, snacks) at the local
wine-bars, or "bàcari". Wandering from place to place
we'll stop and read the "nizioleti" (literaly "small
sheets" = street signs), that tell much about the story and people
of old Venice.
ART
& HISTORY IN VENICE
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The
Power of the Past, the Everlasting Myth
St. Mark Basilica, the Piazza, the Doge's Palace, the Bridge of
Sighs and the Prisons: a must if you're in Venice for the first
time. You'll discover the marvellous marbles of Basilica and the
history of Doge's Palace.
Best time to be done: mid-afternoon.
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From
Gothic to Renaissance
Investigating one of the most important stages in Venice's artistic
development. Highlights: Bellini's Pala at San Zaccaria Church,
the stained-glass window at San Giovanni e Paolo Church, Colleoni
equestrian statue by Verrocchio.
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Bellini,
Titian, Tintoretto - The Venetian School of Colour
Visit to the Frari Church and to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
Some of the absolute masterpieces in Venetian painting still to
be seen in their original locations.
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From
Renaissance to the XVIIIth cent.
Visit to the three milestones of Venice's religious architecture.
Building techniques and artistic theories at San Giorgio Maggiore
(Palladio), Santa Maria della Salute (Longhena), I Gesuati (Massari).
VENICE
SPECIAL TOURS
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Dorsoduro
Discovery
Frequented
by students and arists, the elegant Dorsoduro district boastssumptuous
churches (San Sebastiano) - old boatyards (San Trovaso), intriguingartisans'
shops and picturesque corners.
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Cannaregio
Discovery
Hereexotic merchants had their homes and the Jews were for the first
time enclosed in a Ghetto. Still inhabited by "true" Venetians,
Cannaregio is an attractive area of open air markets, boats, local
colour.
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North
Meets East
Venice as a melting pot - the outstanding artistic and historical
heritage left by some of the most prominent communities once in
Venice: the Greeks, the Dalmatians and the Germans.
On
the Tracks of Poetry
Venice in world literature - the city revisited through the evocative
words of Shakespeare, Byron, Goethe, Proust, Wagner, Hemingway, Brodskij Venice
with the Kids
First a bird's eye on Veince from St George's Belltower, then the
gates of Arsenale - the ancient shipyard - and the cannons, models
of galleys and vessels at the Naval Museum. -
Andrea
Palladio, a Milestone in Western Architecture
St.
Giorgio Maggiore's Monastery, Church of Redentore: an itinerary
in front of St. Mark Square to discover the classical influence
of Palladio's works.
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The
Guggenheim Museum in Venice
Ca'
Venier de' Leoni, the Peggy Guggenheim's Venetian house. Here are
exposed masterpieces by Kandinsky, Pollock, Ernst, Chagall, Dalì
and many others.
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Exploring
the Lagoon
A
boat tour lasting for 6 hours to enjoy the islands of the lagoon
as Torcello, Murano, Burano. First
famous for its millenary cathedral, second for its artistic glass
production, Burano for its incredible coloured houses.
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