Venice - Rialto Market and Wine Tour: a place of business and worship...and tapas!

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