Welcome to the glorious, incomparable city of Venice, Italy. With its grand marble palaces and churches seeming to float atop the city's many canals, and boasting the world's most artistic masterpieces per square mile, this city will amaze you.

Take a private Venice tour and see the city's famous sights and utterly charming neighbourhoods with a friendly local guide.

Hop on a gondola, or do as the locals do and take a Vaporetto (water-bus) along Venice's fabled Grand Canal. Your guide will point out the architectural wonders as you glide along, from the Rialto Bridge to Doge's Palace and Piazza San Marco. Make sure to go inside the Basilica di San Marco, one of the most spectacular houses of worship in the world. Spend an afternoon in the elegant Dorsudoro District, where you can gaze at the works of the Venetian Old Masters in the venerable Gallerie dell'Accademia.

Your guide is happy to tailor a private Venice tour that suits your unique interests in this beautiful city.

Venice

Day Trip to the Venetian Villas along the Brenta River

This tour wants to offer a panorama of influential villas along the Brenta River, owned by the richest families in Venice. A day inthe green and lush landscape close to the river, visiting Gardens and architectural gems.

Villa Pisani, the renown Doge's Palace on the mainland, a sumptuous villa ordered by the Pisani family as their status symbol; rather than a villa, it is a palace decorated with mighty sculptures on its façade and by the most famous venetian painters of 18th-century inside (Gian Battista Tiepolo).

Villa Widmann is a typical summer residence of the 1700's with its delightful park, a true jewel of the Riviera del Brenta.
For lunch we could indulge in a wine tasting in the villa. (This part is optional and can be paid separately on site).

Day trip to admire the great architecture of the Venetian villas

Join me for an in-depth visit to the greatest monument of Venice!
I will explain you why and when the wonderful Basilica of St. Mark's was founded. . . Erected in just 31 years and later enlarged, it took us more than 500 years to complete its astonishing decoration.

Enter with me skipping the endless line with the reservation tickets I'll have bought for you and let yourself feel overwhelmed by the magnificent beauty of its 42000 square feet of mosaics and let me explain you their religious and political meanings. Access the area of the Chancel where a sarcophagus contains the holy relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist preserved here since year 828. Follow me to admire the famous Golden Altarpiece visible only to few like you!
Access the upper external terrace where you'll have the most amazing view on St. Mark's Square! From here I'll illustrate you the history and functions of the main sites of the "Piazza".
Admire the original four Horses, stolen by the Venetians in 1204 during the conquest of Byzantium.

The most complete tour of the top monument in Venice!

Enjoy St.Mark's Basilica, Skip the Line!

Asolo and the Palladian Countryhouses of the Prosecco Road

Explore the rooms of the world renown Villa Barbaro with an art historian at your side: Andrea Palladio and Paolo Veronese were able to create one of their most admired masterpiece here, and its arcane frescoes deserve an appropriate description. Between nature and architecture, the culture of the Venetian villas is at its best in this area: you'll see an amazing Palladian house surrounded by a unique scenery and enriched by its ancient vineyards.
After a short drive, we reach the iconic Villa Emo, which is a haven of peace and a wonderful example of the stylish and efficient Renaissance countryhouses of the Venice mainland.
We will then enjoy a stopover in Asolo to know the story of Caterina Cornaro, the only queen that the Republic of Venice enice ever had: a sort of female Lorenzo de' Medici, who used to welcome and mentor some among the most important Renaissance artists, poets and politicians.

A stroll among Asolo, Villa Barbaro and Villa Emo

Palladio's Villas, Canova's temple and Asolo

This tour wants to offer a panorama of influential architects who where born and operated in the Veneto region from '500 to '900.
Following a chronological order we start with a visit of two countryside villas by Andrea Palladio. Palladio lived in XVI century but his architectural theories became famous worldwide and he influenced many architects in the centuries to follow; think for example of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and the University of Virginia.
A stroll in medieval Asolo offers an elegant and relaxing panorama thanks to its surrounding hills.
After lunch we proceed to Possagno to admire the outstanding shape of Canova's Temple. Canova is a representative of Neoclassicism, a cultural trend that developed all over Europe in XVIII and XIX and looks back to Greek and Roman aesthetics.

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