The Best Venice Day Tours

The Best Venice Day Tours

If you want some expert guidance around Venice, you may opt for private tours, semiprivate tours, or large group tours. Any may include a boat tour as a portion of a longer walking tour. For private tours, make sure to choose an authorized guide.

Private Tours

Walks Inside Venice offers a host of particularly creative private tours from historic to artistic to gastronomic. www.walksinsidevenice.com.

Luisella Romeo of See Venice is a delightful guide capable of bringing to life even the most convoluted aspects of Venice's art and history. www.seevenice.it.

A Guide in Venice offers a wide variety of innovative, entertaining, and informative themed tours for groups of up to 10 people. www.aguideinvenice.com.

Venice Events offers a daily, 10-person-max canal tour, along with many other group and private tour options. Frezzaria, San Marco 1827, Venice, 30124. 041/5239979. www.tours-venice-italy.com.

Semiprivate Tours

Venice Cultural Tours is group of collaborating guides who offer regularly scheduled, semiprivate group tours with a maximum of only eight participants, making a nice alternative to more costly private tours. venice-cultural-tours.com.

Large Group Tours

Visit any Venice tourism office to book walking tours of the San Marco area (€38), which ends with a glassblowing demonstration daily (no Sunday tour in winter). From April to October there's also an afternoon walking tour that ends with a gondola ride (€40), and a daily serenaded gondola ride (€40). Other options can be purchased at local travel agencies. Check the tourist office or Web site for scheduled offerings. 041/5298711. www.turismovenezia.it.

The Cooperativa Guide Turistiche Autorizzate has a list of more than 100 licensed guides. Two-hour tours with an English-speaking guide start at €133 for up to 30 people. Agree on a total price before you begin, as there can be additional administrative and pickup fees. Guides are of variable quality. San Marco 750, near San Zulian, Venice, 30124. 041/5209038. www.guidevenezia.it.

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