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World Travel https://www.youtube.com/user/World1Tube Venice, Italy Travel Guide http://bit.ly/18hNZuE Venice - Italy tours and excursions, Boat tours Venice tours and excursions Venice tours Boat tours Walks Inside Venice organises comprehensive private English-speaking tours around the city. The company caters for small groups of up to 12 people and charges by the hour (most tours are three hours long). Sights visited depend on the tour taken and include the Bridge of Sighs, the Doge's Palace and the largely unspoilt Cannaregio District. Other cultural, historic and artistic tours can also be booked at tourist information offices. Gondola tours Take a trip through the lesser-known canals with a guided tour on board a gondola. Enjoy the most romantic experience that Venice has to offer, while seeing parts of this historic city that many guests don't get to view. A traditional gondola ride can take around 40 minutes and the routes vary. Singing and serenading is optional, and should be discussed with your gondolier in advance. You'll find gondolas and gondoliers throughout the main tourist areas, from Tronchetto and the Piazzale Roma, to the Rialto Bridge area and St Mark's Square. For a more reasonably priced guided tour, book through the tourist office below or go to Statius Gondolas Customs Calle Vallaresso near Harry's Bar on the Grand Canal. Daily 35 minute tours between April and October at 430pm. Vaporetto tour The Vaporetto dell'arte is a new tour of the Grand Canal. It offers a hop on, hop off water bus, stopping at over 20 museums, monuments, theatres and exhibitions. The Vaporetto leaves from the Santa Lucia railway station stop E every 30 minutes and ends at San Giorgio Maggiore Island (until 28 August) and Giardini (from 29 August until 25 November. Multimedia commentary is available on board and many of the museums offer discounted admission charges and priority access to Vaporetto dell'arte card holders. Walking tours Walks Inside Venice organises comprehensive private English-speaking tours around the city. The company caters for small groups of up to 12 people and charges by the hour (most tours are three hours long). Sights visited depend on the tour taken and include the Bridge of Sighs, the Doge's Palace and the largely unspoilt Cannaregio District. Other cultural, historic and artistic tours can also be booked at tourist information offices. Excursions from Venice Burano, Murano and Torcello Explore these fascinating Venetian islands by boat in a 3.5 hour boat trip leaving from San Marco. Visit the lace shops of Burano and tour a museum dedicated to the skill. Enjoy a glass-blowing display by skilled craftsmen in Murano. Meanwhile Torcello which used to be the most populated part of Venice and now has a population of less than 50, boasts Venice's oldest cathedral constructed in the 7th century. You can travel independently by vaporetto to each island. Padova Just 35km (21m) west of Venice lies Padova, a town distinguished by Italy's second oldest university and the remarkable Cappella degli Scrovegni, home of Giotto's groundbreaking frescoes. This delightful town inspired Shakespeare who used it as the setting for The Taming of the Shrew. It is also the site of the world's first botanical garden, created in 1545 and preserving its original layout, a circular central plot, symbolizing the world, surrounded by a ring of water. Tours run regularly from Piazzo San Marco and offer a varied choice of cultural or relaxing trips to one of the island's many museums or spas. Or for the independent traveller, a train from Venice's Santa Lucia station will take 30-40 minutes. Venice Lido The Lido is a short vaporetto ride from central Venice and provides a great escape for a day or afternoon from the tourist crowds. The beaches, while not extraordinary, are wide and sandy and a decent place to relax and swim in summer. In early September, the Lido hosts the Venice Film Festival, the first international film festival ever which opened in 1932 at the Excelsior Hotel. The Hotels des Bains nearby was the setting for Thomas Mann's famous novel Death in Venice. Across the road from the vaporetto stop is Santa Maria Elisabetta, a wide avenue lined with ice cream shops, cafes, restaurants, and bars, all adding to the chilled out beach atmosphere. Vaporetto Number 1 travels regularly to the Lido from various stops in Venice. ==================== Venice, Italy Travel Guide, Tourism, Vacation and Attractions,Venice Tours,Venice Attractions,Venice Hotels,Venice Restaurants,Venice Shopping,Venice Transport,Venice Museums,Venice history