🏨 Venice: Charming Gondola Ride on the Grand Canal Activity

Venice: Charming Gondola Ride on the Grand Canal

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 45 minutes

Departs: Venice, Venice

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Feel the soul of Venice exploring romantic waterways close and along the Grand Canal with a gondolier.

Get free access to an app with commentary of your itinerary on the gondola. As you enjoy the beauties of the Grand Canal, admire the marvelous Palaces such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Palace, the Gritti Palace, the Salute Church, the Punta della Dogana. Discover the worldwide-famous La Fenice Theatre and the Mozart House along the romantic and hidden waterways.

At the end of your ride, enjoy a breathtaking view of the Saint Mark’s Basin with San Giorgio Island.

• Glide the Grand Canal and inner canals on board of a gondola
• Skip the long line and get straight on the boat
• Discover Venice with an app commentary in your choice of nine languages

What's Included

a 15-minute introduction to the gondola experience

In-app commentary

Shared 30 minute gondola ride

What's Not Included

Audio-devices

Earphones

Hotel pick up

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 1
ADULT: Age: 2 - 99

Additional Info

- OPTION WALKING TOUR AND GONDOLA RIDE - 11:30 AM (IF THE OPTION IS SELECTED): the walking tour is at 11:30 AM and the gondola ride is at 2:10 PM
- OPTION WALKING TOUR AND GONDOLA RIDE - 9:15 AM (IF THE OPTION IS SELECTED): the walking tour is at 9:15 AM and the gondola ride is at 11:10 AM
All customer touchpoints are frequently cleaned, and the tour will leave with small groups.
For Covid-19 precaution the use of the mask is MANDATORY. Customers are required to bring and wear their own mask.
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The itinerary could change in case of wind or bad weather
Unfortunately the tour is not totally accessible for wheelchair users or people with walking disabilities.

- OPTION WALKING TOUR AND GONDOLA RIDE - 11:30 AM (IF THE OPTION IS SELECTED): the walking tour is at 11:30 AM and the gondola ride is at 2:10 PM
- OPTION WALKING TOUR AND GONDOLA RIDE - 9:15 AM (IF THE OPTION IS SELECTED): the walking tour is at 9:15 AM and the gondola ride is at 11:10 AM
All customer touchpoints are frequently cleaned, and the tour will leave with small groups.
For Covid-19 precaution the use of the mask is MANDATORY. Customers are required to bring and wear their own mask.
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The itinerary could change in case of wind or bad weather
Unfortunately the tour is not totally accessible for wheelchair users or people with walking disabilities.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Canal Grande

“The most beautiful road in the world”, this is how the Canal Grande is known as. If you look around, what you will see is almost the same view that a 18th-century nobleman would have seen, and before him a Renaissance courtesan, and even before that, a merchant who lived in the Middle Ages.

• Admission Ticket Free

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Peggy Guggenheim Collection is one of the most important art collections in the world. Peggy Guggenheim, from New York, arrived in Venice in 1949 and began to satisfy her art addiction by buying this wonderful building where she put on display invaluable artworks for the whole world to see. The beautiful terrace you see is where Guggenheim sun-bathed regularly enjoying the view over the Canal Grande

• Admission Ticket Free

Palazzo Gritti Badoer

The Gritti Palace got its name from the Gritti family, an old Venetian family, the most important member of which was Andrea Gritti,, the Doge of Venice in the Renaissance. Andrea Gritti led the Venetian armies against the League of Cambrai, consisting in France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, which wanted to stop Venice’s expansionist ambitions in France.

• Admission Ticket Free

Teatro La Fenice

Once one of 7 major theatres in the city, today the Fenice is Venice’s one and only opera house. It is surely a jewel among European theatres, and began to shine from the beginning, as the best composers of the age wrote and performed their operas here, among which Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. But it was Giuseppe Verdi who is most attached to the Fenice and to Venetian memory.

• Admission Ticket Free

Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute

Here, as you come into the Grand Canal you are opened to the church of the Madonna della Salute.

The first thing that strikes a viewer is how imposing the church is, strategically placed at the entrance of the Grand Canal looking out onto the rest of the city in every direction, thanks to its circular shape.

Today, ever 21 November the city celebrates the Madonna della Salute in memory of the end of the plague

• Admission Ticket Free

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