🏨 The Heart of Venice: A Self-Guided Audio Tour Activity

The Heart of Venice: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

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Duration: 60 minutes

Departs: Venice, Venice

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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Overview

As you wander through the ancient streets and beautiful open squares of this city, you’ll learn some of the fascinating stories that are tied to this magical place. We’ll start in Piazza San Marco, the most famous and most central point of Venice. You’ll learn the story of The Old Lady with the Mortar and admire the ornate Church of San Zulian. Meander through Campo San Salvador and then enjoy the splendor of the Teatro Comunale Carlo Goldoni, a theatre named after Carlo Goldoni, a Venetian playwright from the 1700's. You’ll also visit La Fenice, the opera house that hosted the first performances of "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata." The walk ends on the famous Rialto Bridge which is where the first bridge on the Grand Canal was ever built. The tour is ready whenever you are and the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.

What's Included

Lifetime access to The Heart of Venice tour

Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

VoiceMap Application

What's Not Included

Food/Drink

Smartphone

Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

Transportation

Traveler Information

ADULT: Age: 6 - 99

Additional Info

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Service animals allowed

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Service animals allowed

Cancellation Policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

What To Expect

Piazza San Marco

Piazza San Marco is the most famous and most central point of Venice. Everyone who has come here in the past 1000 years or so has visited this place. It was once famously called “the drawing room of Europe”, but Venetians simply call it “the Piazza". It has been the site of much elegance, drama and history. State visits of popes and emperors, public executions, religious processions, and of course, Carnival - the Piazza is where all that is grand has happened in one of the world's grandest cities, and in our tour you will hear her stories.

• Admission Ticket Free

Campo San Salvador

Campo San Salvador has a tall marble column in the middle of the square. The column was set up here in 1898. It commemorates the 17-month Venetian revolt against the Austrian occupation of Venice in 1848 and 1849.

• Admission Ticket Free

Teatro Goldoni

"Teatro Comunale Carlo Goldoni" is named for Carlo Goldoni, a Venetian playwright of the 1700's. He wrote many comedies in the Venetian dialect which were revolutionary for their time. He made his characters seem like real people, affectionately highlighting the quirks of ordinary Venetians.

• Admission Ticket Free

Teatro La Fenice

Many famous operas had their first performance at La Fenice, including "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata." La Fenice is still one of the most important opera houses in Italy.

• Admission Ticket Free

Palazzo Cavalli

Palazzo Cavalli is where all civil marriage services are conducted. It also houses the offices of the Centro Maree, or Tide Center. This is where all monitoring of data concerning tides and weather goes on, and where the daily predictions of the tide are made, especially regarding high tide, or acqua alta.

• Admission Ticket Free

Ponte di Rialto

The Rialto Bridge is the third one of it's kind. Earlier Rialto bridges were made of wood. They were bascule bridges, which means the center part could be raised to allow ships with masts to pass through.

• Admission Ticket Free

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