Top 10 in Venice - Ten Things to do absolutely in Venice

Every site hosts its list of important things to do or see in a city like Venice which offers the casual visitor as well as assiduous visitor lover of the city, always an inspiration to better discover the city of the Doges.

This is our path that is meant to be only a starting point of the thousands of different occasions that Venice has to be known.
 
 
1) Waterbus tour in Grand Canal

A tourist will be able to imagine the city of Venice just after crossing the main street, the Grand Canal.

The big palaces that are reflected on its shores, majestic churches and some of the important museums of the city, accompanied by the watercourse, which once thought to have been the bed of a river that flowed into the Adriatic, crossing the whole lagoon city, performing a tortuous path, in the shape of them inverted.
The spell lies in imagining how the ancient Venetians may have built this wonder, a path immersed in brackish waters, raising of tall buildings, approached one another without interruption, conceived and designed by the greatest architects of all time from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, in an environment that would otherwise be inhospitable and unhealthy.
 
2) Tour in a typical venetian Rowing Boat

Venice means a romantic trip around the canals on a 'typical rowing boat. You will be able to see parts of the city that otherwise you would not see and stay in the silence of the channels only feeling the oar Sigola (squeaks) in Forcola.

You can book clicking on this link the tour on the rowing boat and, in the 90 minutes tour, you will be able to see the corners that are not covered on foot, discovering the Double viability of Venice.
Our local guide will be at your disposal. This way, if you have special wishes, we will try to accommodate you as much as possible.
The boat is a sandolo Venetian: boat that can be considered basic in the Venetian Lagoon, as many of the other lagoon boats are derived from this model.
Click on this link to book the tour and discover the hidden corners of Venice
 
3) Walking in St. Mark's Square

The largest lounge in the world, as it was defined a long time ago, provides much food for thought in every corner and from every point of view.

From the bottom of St. Mark's Square, the narrowest point and farther from the St. Mark's Basilica, you have an overview that includes, from left to right, the Old Magistrates with the Clock Tower at the end, the Piazzetta dei Leoncini, on which every tourist tries to wrest a particular image, the majestic St. Mark's Basilica, the Bell, said El paron de casa, ending with the New Magistrates, which was completed in 1640 at the hands of Baldassare Longhena who completed the work begun by Vincenzo Scamozzi.
Walking along the arcades of the Magistrates leads us in an instant to the glories of the Venice Serenissima, with shops filled with all merchandise, as you was in 1500.
 
4) Visit the St. Mark's Basilica

The St. Mark's Basilica, the Golden Basilica, was born as the Ducal Chapel, the private chapel of the Doge. The impressive mosaics that cover every part of the interior walls are executed in gold tiles that were produced specifically to Murano prayed with 24 carat gold leaf. If gold is not pure will be darken and it would be brilliant and sparkling as you see.

The entrance to the Basilica is free but a small donation is worth review both the Pala d’Oro that the treasury of St. Mark's, and possibly the lodge whith the original houses Quadriga of horses in bronze, a copy of which you can see over the main door of the Basilica.
 

5) Getting lost in Venice

 An unusual way, but certainly effective, to know Venice is lost in its narrow streets, to the squares, in the fields.
Only in this way the city embraces you and reveals the places discounts, most unusual, those places where a traditional guide you would not ever, but it still hides the true Venice.
 
6) Tasting Venetian cuisine and wine (shadows)Bacaro Tour

Andar par ombre, Going to drink wine is not just a way of saying to the Venetians, but it means, almost always, be with friends, getting lost in ciacole, eat something tasty, but healthy and well accompanied by a healthy glass of wine.

Un'ombra de rosso a glass of red wine, paid in large glass beaker, and the classical goto from ostaria, must approach with a paninetto, or half egg, perhaps with the anchovy, the nervetti, el folpeto, the Venetian snacks which is located in a good part of the premises described ne Bacaro Tour.
 
7) Rowing in a Venice Boat Tour

You will be able to realize the environment in where you are, only comparing with the tide and currents: feel the breath of the lagoon and understand the delicate balance in which this city survives.

Now you can see parts of the city that otherwise you would not see and stay in the silence of the channels just feeling the oar that Sigola (squeaks) in Forcola.
You can book a private rowing lesson clicking on this link.
Numbers are limited to 4 on this small-group activity, ensuring personalized attention at all times.
Meet your instructor in a quite area of Venice and then head to the waterside were your sanpierotta is ready and waiting for you.
More stable then the traditional gondolas, sanpierotta have been used for centuries to let the Venetians move around the city.
Start your experience with some on-land training to learn how to keep your balance on the water.
Then hop aboard your sanpierotta and discover the tricks to gently row, steer and stop on the water.

As you glide listen to your instructor talk about the history of the boats and the life in the ancient Venice. This type of rowing was invented to help the early Venetian travel around the water of the lagoon.

You can book the 2 hours rowing lesson clicking this link
 
8) Cross Rialto's Bridge and Accademia Bridge

Rialto was the commercial center of the city and the bridge connecting the two banks of the Grand Canal since at least 1180, although in that case it was just a bridge of boats, but since 1592 its current structure does not has changed.

The prospect that can be seen from both sides of the parapets of the central Rialto is certainly the most photographed.
Not to be outdone by the Accademia Bridge from which you can admire the Punta della Dogana where it was once pulled a thick chain to prevent the access of vessels during the night.
 
9) Visit Murano and Burano

The weather is usually a tyrant, but those who had the opportunity to go to visit at least the two main islands of Laguna veneta.

Murano is internationally knowns as the island of glass, and Venicewiki offers to the discerning travelers also a free demonstration of the millennial glass processing and whoever wants to can Book a visit to a Murano Glass Factory and see a glass-master made a beautiful object by a incandescent glass ball.
Its history inseparable from Venice still bears the marks in the Romanesque Basilica dei Santi Maria e Donato and its magnificent Medieval mosaics.

Burano instead is the home of lace, but the colorful houses with bright colors are a real treat for the eyes and cameras.

The nearby Torcello opens even more historical view on the lagoon city.
 
 
 

10) Visit some of the most impressive Churches of Venice

 Some churches of Venice have ancient foundations, such as the Church of San Lorenzo which is based on Roman walls, the Church of St. Giacometo at the foot of the Rialto or beautiful San Zaccaria Church in which there are more floor mosaics in opus sectile.
 

10-bis) Walk with high tide

Walking into deep water, knowing that after a few hours it will be dropped, it is, for a person to pass, a nice pastime. It is not for those who live on the lower floors of the houses or the local traders they manage water reservoirs dark channels.
Often with high water that remains is to wait for it to drop and then roll up their sleeves to clean and wash.

Obviously no one is excluded from the high water. The Bishop of Venice in 2008 had to resort to boots and cross the field flooded by water, standing up his cassock in order to reach the Church of St. Canciano where some boys are waiting for confirmation.