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Private tour in Venice Cinzia T
Venice - Rialto Market and Wine Tour: a place of business and worship...and tapas!
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I belong to a Venetian family of documented ancient origins. After obtaining my Tourism High School diploma, I lived for two years in the United States where I collaborated with the US Department of the Interior in San Francisco, at the Golden Gate Recreation Area, for the translation into Italian of the documentation on Alcatraz Island. I then worked for a year as a cultural representative at EPCOT Center - Walt Disney World Co. in Orlando, Florida. Once back in Venice, I graduated with honors in History from Venice University Ca' Foscari, concentrating my studies on Venetian and Byzantine Art and History. In 2000 I became a Qualified Tourist Guide of Venice and the Venetian Villas. I love traveling and local cuisine, the sea, nature, animals, and 60s and 70s pop and rock. Over the years I dedicated myself to the promotion of initiatives aimed at the dissemination of Venetian culture and held lectures on Venice's History and Art for the UNESCO Campaign on safeguarding Venice, contributing to the restoration of two 15th and 19th-century paintings preserved in the local church of Santa Maria Formosa. I recently obtained a master's degree with honors in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities, studying in depth subjects related to the international law and the protection of cultural heritage, UNESCO and to sustainable tourism. QUALIFICATION - Italian National Register of Tourist Guides # 05000168 - Venice Tour guide qualification # 232 06/04/2000 (issued by Regione Veneto /Venice Metropolitan Area) - Tour Manager qualification # 68 28/11/1988 (issued by Regione Veneto) - Port Security Pass #25656 (issued by Venice Port Authority) - University Degree in History - Master University Degree in Economy and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities. None.
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A Venice tour including Rialto Market, typical taverns and small churches where merchants use to pray for good business
Overview of your Venice tour
I will guide you through the colorful Rialto Market, where the stalls record the procession of the seasons, walking through greengrocers, vendors of cheese, freshly made pasta shops, florists, and the fish market stalls. Rialto market - once the center of commercial and financial activity - is still a fascinating place of history, where you find many testimonies of the ancient activities. We'll see the small church of San Giacomo, with the old clock on its façade, was the place of worship for merchants who would pray for honest but profitable business. In the church of St John the Almsgiver, where an outstandingly fine work of art by Titian is preserved and where, on the altar of the ancient Guild of the Poulterers, a painting shows them together with their chickens worshiping the Virgin Mary. We will stop by one of the typical wine bars for a taste of some delicious Cicchetti (tapas) with a glass of local wine. We'll cross then the Grand Canal on a gondola-ferry and return towards the Square of St Mar
Your Venice tour itinerary
-We will start the tour either from your hotel if it is located in the city center) or from a meeting point that we can arrange specifically for you. -We'll walk around the Rialto Market, where well' see the different fruit, vegetable and fish stalls, and we'll see a couple of famous churches related to the commercial activities there were in Rialto in the past. -The tour is also including some wine and food tasting of the typical Venetian cuisine. After a short gondola experience and a walk through the backstreets of the city, we'll be in St Mark's Square to end the tour. ** The tour is available Tuesdays through Saturdays, as the fish market is closed on Sunday and Monday. The fruit and vegetable market is closed on Sunday.
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Walking tour - gondola to cross the Grand Canal.
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