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

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In a city as Venice where the occasional visitor that as the assiduous tourist lover of the city can find one however a new sprout to discover more always and always better the city of the Doges.
This run of ours, described before in the detail , wants to be only a point of beginning of the thousand of different occasions that Venice offers to be known.
Here therefore the things to do in Venice, the 10 things not be lost:
1) Waterbus tour in Grand Canal
2) Walk in St. Mark's Square
3) Visit the St. Mark's Basilica
4) Learns to to row as a Venetian
5) Lose yourself in Venice
6) Taste the Venetian cuisine and the wine (shades) in a beautiful Bacaro Tour
7) Cross Rialto's Bridge and Accademia Bridge
8) Visit the islands of the lagoon: Murano, Burano and Torcello
9) Visit some of the most imposing Churches in Venice
10) Walk with or in the hight water
 
1) Waterbus tour in Grand Canal

A tourist that arrives to Venice for the first time succeeds in imagining the city only after having crossed the principal street; the Grand Canal.

The big palaces that mirror him on his shores, the stately churches and some of the important museums of the city, they accompany the course of water, that he anciently was thought both the bed of a river that flowed in the Adriatic is, crossing the whole lagoon city, performing a tortuous run in es form of them upset.
The spell is really in to imagine as the ancient Venetians could have built this wonder, an absorbed run in the brackish waters, raising some tall buildings, one approached to the other without solution of continuity, thought and conceived by the greatest architects of every time by the XIV to the XIX century, in an environment that otherwise would have been inhospitable and unhealthy.
 
2) Walk in St. Mark's Square

The greatest living room of the world, as he has been defined a long time ago, offers many sprout of reflection in every angle and from every point of view.

From the bottom of St. Mark's Square, the narrowest point and more away from the St. Mark's Basilica, a look is had of together that understands, from left to the right, the Procuratie Vecchie with the Clock Tower at the end, the Piazzetta dei Leoncini, on which every tourist looks for to tear a particular image, the stately one St. Mark's Basilica, the Bell tower, said el paron de casa , the Landlord to finish with the Procuratie Nuove, whose construction finished in 1640 to work of Baldassare Longhena that concluded the job begun from Vincenzo Scamozzi.
Walk along the parvises of the Procuraties brings us in an instant to the glorious enterprises of Venice, with the shops full of every merchandise, as it was in 1500, otherwise you can be sat at one of the numerous coffees, but remembered you that sat in St. Mark's Square an espresso doesn't cost certain one Euro, but you can remain sat until you want.
 
3) Visit the St. Mark's Basilica

The St. Mark's Basilica, the Golden Basilica, was born as the ducal chapel, the private church of the Doge. The impressive mosaics that cover every part of the insider walls, around 1000 square meters, are performed in to plot of gold that expressly produced in Murano with begged gold leaf to 24 carats. If the gold were pure he would darken and it would not be bright and sparkling as is seen it.

The entry into the Basilica is free, but it deserves a small offering to view both her gold Shovel that the Treasure of St. Mark that it picks up among the objects of the collection the gifts facts to the doge during the millennium of the Serenissima Repubblica. Cups of thick gold can be seen or of Crystal of Fortress , gems, ostensori, shrines. He can eventually climb also also on the loggia from which she is dominated St. Mark's Square. In the run to reach the loggia it is crossed the museum that entertains the original one Quadriga of Horses of St. Mark in bronze, whose copy overhangs the central door of the Basilica.
 
4) Learn to Row like a Venetian

When you go to oars you compare yourself with the tide and the tides. It is then that you realize the environment in which you find yourself, you feel the breath of the lagoon and you understand the delicate equilibrium in which this city survives. It is always an emotion to understand as they are gondoliers to sail the long ones Gondolas. To learn the millennial system to conduct a boat as a Venetian is as to go by bicycle, you doesn't forget never more.

You can book one private rowing lesson at click on this link, in this way you can learn the exclusive technique of the fashion to the Venetian one, to snatch its secrets and to learn to row as a true Venetian on a typical boat.
The lesson has a duration of 2 hours , for a maximum of 5 people, in which you will learn to row with one oar, making practice and taking confidence in the calmest channels in Venice: an unique occasion to make a dive in the past, trying in before person the centenary Venetian tradition.
like a venetian/ Click here to book your private lesson
 

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 (ombras)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 and Learn to Row as a Venetian

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.