Venice Tours

Finding of non-tourist sites in a city like Venice may seem like a mission impossible since this city is invaded daily by tourists who visit appreciating it for its unique charm. In fact, most of the visitors concentrate on classic things to do such as Piazza San Marco and its Basilica, Doge's Palace, the Rialto Bridge. But also out of the common place of Venice, there are extraordinary places even in the city. And this can be done only by entering in the palaces, not merely observe the facades. So it happens to get in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Scuola Grande di San Rocco or the Chiesa Dei Frari and discover magnificent works and fine buildings, that tell the true story of Venice. You can take custom designed private Venice Tours to enjoy attractions in this great city.

Top 10 Things to Do and See in Custom Designed Private Venice Tours

1. Visit the Piazza San Marco
   Piazza San Marco is the first place that comes to mind at all when we talk of Venice. Before the arrival of the relics of St. Mark and the subsequent construction of the Basilica, this was simply a large vegetable garden. Piazza San Marco is the only open space in Venice who has the privilege of being called "square", while all other areas with this feature are called "fields". In the years of the Venetian Republic, it was home to exhibitions, tournaments, processions, and the hunt for bulls, while today it is surrounded by bars, where you can sit and watch live the passage of tourists from all over the world in awe of such beauty.
   
   
2. Visit the Palazzo Ducale
   The Palazzo Ducale style has undergone many changes, dictated by the long series of terrible fires over the years has resulted in significant changes in the structure. The political importance of the Palace, which hosted the Doges in the history of the Republic of Venice, was also underlined by Napoleon Bonaparte , in 1797 he made it the center of his administration after he successfully conquered the city. The historical importance of the Ducal Palace in Venice is also demonstrated by the huge amount paid from the coffers of the newborn Italian State, in favor of a total renovation of the building.
   
   
3. Venice's Grand Canal
   The Grand Canal runs through Venice for over four kilometers by dividing into two parts, the center of the city.  If you want to look and admire the city from a different point of view, you can take the custom designed private Venice tours to the Grand Canal, leaving from Saint Lucia railway station to Piazza San Marco to offer you a superb experience. The places that overlook the Grand Canal are all facing the river and during the tour its capture the attentions of many tourists. Observing the beauty building and the narrow alleys that can be seen as the boat moves slowly towards Piazza San Marco, you can understand why Venice has always been one of the most popular cities in the world.
   
   
4. See the Venice Bridges
   Today the stunning bridges are usually crowded with tourists and vendors, and it is one of the world's most famous photographic points. The newest bridge in Venice, the spectacular Bridge of the Constitution, which is designed and constructed by the great Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The Bridge, commissioned in 1997, after an elephantine gestation due to design errors and doubts about its stability, was opened to the public in 2008 and only a year later, it obtained the final technical approval.
   
   
5. The Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice
   The Gallerie dell'Accademia houses the richest collection of Venetian paintings, from the fourteenth century Byzantine and Gothic to Renaissance artists. Some names can immediately clarify the quantity and quality of the works housed in a huge complex. This place contains a collection of Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto and Titian and also the great eighteenth-century landscape painters such as Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi, and Longhi. There are also works by Mantegna, a Piero Della Francesco, Crivelli, Luca Giordano, Memling, and others. The museum is also hosted one of the highlights of Leonardo da Vinci, the Vitruvian Man. Visitors can explore the great collection by taking a private Venice tour of the museum.
   
   
6. Explore the Peggy Guggenheim Museum
   The museum is located in the one incomplete palace in Venice, the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, bought by Guggenheim to establish the largest modern art museum of the '50s. Peggy has spent his life with the sole objective to create a museum that would enhance the works of the avant-garde of the world. His passion was not stopped even by the outbreak of World War II: in the years of the conflict, in fact, the Guggenheim has continued to turn to Europe, heedless of the dangers in search of the works that he intended to include in its prestigious collection. The great personality of Peggy Guggenheim has made its artists to become arguably the most popular that represent American Abstract Expressionism. Visitors can take a private tour of Venice available for the museum.
   
   
7. The Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice
   The Scuola Grande di San Rocco was the seat of a brotherhood of wealthy Venetian devoted to charitable works. In 1564 the Brotherhood Tintoretto has entrusted the task of decorating the school. In 24 years, the artist and his students carry a large canvas in the Sala Terrena and in that of the hotel. The works tell biblical stories and the life of Christ in an exceptional artistic career, which almost stuns for the size and the number of painted works.
   
   
8. Visit the Arsenal
   The arsenal is the vast area where the ships were built for the Most Serene Republic of Venice. Now is the seat of important art exhibitions (the first among all the Biennales of Art and Architecture) but it is also home to a Naval Museum preserving ancient and precious vessels.
   
   
9. Visit the Lido beach
   The Lido beach is the beach of the Venetians! The Lido is a strip of land that is located opposite Venice, and, besides being the place where there is the famous Venice Film Festival, is also a favorite seaside resort by the Venetians with its areas of the free beach or equipped with the "huts".
    
10. Explore the Jewish Ghetto
    Perhaps not everyone knows that Venice has the first - and then the oldest - the ghetto in the world. As you walk along the busy Strada Nuova you turn into an alley, past a porch and suddenly you are in a quiet neighborhood, where the buildings are high, the restaurants serve kosher food, the shop windows of the pastry shops sell delicious pastries and Jewish where, if you observe well the form of a window, you can understand that that wall does not hide a normal house, but a synagogue. In the ghetto, there is also an interesting Jewish museum that offers guided private tours to synagogues: absolutely a destination not to miss in your private tours of Venice if you want to learn about a very important part of the history of Venice