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Secret Venice By Night Walking Tour And Gondola Ride
If you came to Venice with visions in mind of winding streets and tumbling houses, then our Secret Venice walking tour and gondola ride is the tour for you. Escape the crowds of St. Marks’s Square with this original evening walking tour that explores Venice’s less seen, more romantic face on the other side of the Grand Canal.
Our Secret Venice Walking Tour our starts with an evening stroll through hidden Venice, where we’ll get away from the tourist trail and experience life as the locals do. Follow your expert, English-speaking guide past spooky Ca’Dario, the most cursed house in Venice; Fondameta degli Incurablithe original ‘conservatory’ music hospital where monks raised orphans as world-famous performers; and Redentore Churchwhere your guide will paint a picture of the incredible festivals that once flowed from here into the piazzas and canals.
During your Secret Venice Walking Tour, you’ll visit parts of the city that most tourists never see. As you walk you’ll see Ernest Hemmingway’s favorite haunts and hear stories of the real Desdemona (from Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’) whose home you will pass, and learn of a very different woman – Peggy Guggenheim whose behavior outraged locals.
Your guide leaves you then and our Venice walking tour ends on the sweetest note with a quiet gondola ride. Relax as a gondolier, in his striped shirt, punts along the canal. With only six people per gondola your ride will be peaceful and intimate – or for an additional fee opt instead for the private gondola ride, an unforgettable experience for you and your travel companions.
As evening dissolves into night our boats dock and the group disperses with heads full of narrow canals and little-known stories. You’ll hardly have the heart to go back to the tourist trail now you’ve seen the real Venice.
