!! New Tour !!Are you visiting Venice but you are staying in a hotel outside the city? You don’t know how to get St. Mark Square from Venice Train Station or Piazzale Roma? This is the best tour for you!!! A qualified guide will give you a great oriental introduction to the city in a outdoor […]
For Venetians, sensitivity to art is instinctive. A taste for the ‘beautiful’ and the ‘refined’ can only be accentuated in a city such as Venice, in which art is continually spoken about and embodiment of the aesthetic is at its finest. But Venetian taste is highly specific and rarely acquiesces to new influences. Gothic, Renaissance […]
The Scuola Grande di San Rocco brings together many features of Venetian life. Firstly, devotion to a saint, namely, San Rocco, who was the protector against the plague which had repeatedly afflicted the population. Moreover, as a ‘Scuola’ it was a pivotal institution in the social and political life of the Republic; furthermore, the Scuola […]
This tour has been created for those coming to Venice for the first time, who would like an introduction to its history by visiting St. Mark’s Piazza and its main sights: the Doge’s Palace and St. Mark’s Basilica. The former was the political heart of the Republic, but it was also the home of the […]
For those who just want an overview of Venice’s main sights, I recommend this walk through the main streets of the city. It begins with an introduction to the monuments in St Mark’s Piazza: The Doge’s Palace and St Mark’s Basin, together with the Basilica, Bell Tower and Clock Tower. We then head towards “La […]
