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Tours of Venice
From bus tours to walking tours, gondola lessons to private guides, sidetrips to outlying islands and tours of the Doge's Palace, here are the best guided microtours in Venice
Even if you're a die-hard solo traveler and scoff at the folks being herded from one sight to another in the big tourist clots of a tour group, you can get a lot of mileage out of sightseeing guides once you're in Venice.
Gondola tours of the city, escorted day trips to outlying islands (Murano, Burano, Torcello) and nearby medieval towns in the Veneto, walking tours around town, guided tours through museums or cathedrals, private guides—these are all what I call microtours (as opposed to the macrotours of fully escorted bus trips).
Local guides who concentrate only on one city or sight are usually experts, not tour bus escorts who’ve merely memorized a canned spiel for each town, stop, and sight along the way.
By combining do-it-yourself planning and travel with microtours, you can get the best of both worlds. The best microtours are packed with more information (history, background, anecdotes, details, and explanations) than any guidebook has room to print.
A tip: On any tour, be a head-of-the-class nerd and stick next to the guide. Walking from stop to stop on the tour, you’ll be able to chat on your own with her and ask questions, and you’ll also get to hear her answers and explanations to everyone else’s questions.
There are essentially six kinds of microtours, each covered on its own section:
- City tours
- Walking tours
- Sight & museum tours
- Fun & offbeat experiences
- Sidetrips from Venice
- Private guides
Related pages
- Guided tours to Italy (if you want the whole trip to be guided)
- Guidebooks to Venice (if you want to be your own guide)
- Planning your days in Venice
- The top sights in Venice
- Getting around in Venice (for when you go it alone)
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This material was last updated February 2011. All information was accurate at the time.
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