Painted with Light
A Day in Venice
Duration:
7 hours.
Starts:
Hotel Danieli, Venice
Walking level:
Easy.
Included:
7-hr city guide; prebooked entrance tickets for the Doge's Palace
Price:
1-7 people: 600 euros
8-15 people: 70 euros/person
The city guide will meet you in front of the hotel Danieli, a beautiful example of a Venetian gothic palace. Visit the Doge's Palace and its prisons, linked to the Palace by the famous "Bridge of Sighs". Enter the Basilica of St.Mark and admire its splendid golden mosaics and marble works.
Walking across the main square (St. Mark's), and along the narrow lanes of Venice, reach the church of Santa Maria de Frari, where famous paintings by Titian and Tintoretto are preserved.
Take the boat and admire some of the famous palaces along the Grand Canal. Then reach the Ghetto, where your guide will show you the main Synagogue, and tell you about the history of this important city district.
After a lunch break at leisure (the guide will be glad to give you suggestions), take the boat to reach the islands of Burano and Murano.
Burano is a cute little island, where the colorful houses and the little main square will give you the taste of the typical fishing village. Here you may see also some lace trimming ladies sitting in front of their house door, as it was habit in the past times, chatting and working while wait for their husbands coming back from a long fishing day. The shops offer a wide selection of beautiful embroidered linen. Murano is the island reknown for its blown glass factories. Here you will watch some artists at work.
Take the boat back to Saint Mark's. End of the tour.