Unusual Venice Walking Tour: Discovering the Hidden and Historical Parts of Venice

Embark on an unusual walking tour of Venice to uncover hidden corners, historical treasures, and intriguing secrets. Explore off-the-beaten-track areas, visit Marco Polo’s House, and unravel the mysteries of St. Mark’s Square.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Piazza San Marco - The breathtaking St. Mark’s Square with its endless history
  • Campo Santa Maria Formosa - One of the largest fields in the city
  • Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo - The “Pantheon of Venice”
  • Calle Varisco - Discover Venice’s narrowest street and its secrets and mysteries.
  • Ponte di Rialto - The guide will escort you…
What's Included
  • Shared walking guided tour with a qualified and experienced guide
  • Shared Gondola Ride (if option is selected)
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pick up & Drop off
  • Entrances Fees
Additional Information

Embark on a historical exploration of Venice’s hidden gems with our expert guide, who will unveil secret spots and stunning highlights. Wander through less trodden paths of Venice via an unconventional walking tour that will take you to the city’s historical core: Campo Santa Maria Formosa, boasting its ancient church’s baroque facade, and the Rialto…

Location
Venice Tours
Calle San Gallo
Venice Tours is in Campo San Gallo, beside San Marco Square. Having the Basilica of San Marco behind you, stay on the right side of the square and go under the arches. Find Olivetti Museum, turn right, pass under the archways, cross the little bridge and go straight to “Campo San Gallo”.
Cancellation Policy

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

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E8960bwmartas
Feb 13, 2025
VALENTINA PERFECT GUIDE TO GET TO KNOW VENICE - A very complete and dynamic tour. VALENTINA was a perfect guide to get to know Venice better. Very good virtual reality experience at the end of the tour to see what Venice was like years ago.
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Natalia_lausin
Feb 9, 2025
Historic Venice - The guide was excellent! He told us many historical anecdotes and explained everything we saw very well. Very friendly and friendly. The hike became very enjoyable and we learned a lot from Venice. We recommend Valentina 200% Then the virtual reality experience was fun and certainly something different to experience.
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Raquel
Feb 9, 2025
Venice with Venetian - The guided tour was very interesting and enjoyable. Valentina, she was a great, friendly and very friendly. In addition to being a Venetian, she conveyed the history of her city with great interest. In the end she was happy to make some recommendations that we asked that were very successful. Thank you very much
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Darrenkent
Feb 8, 2025
Great Tour - We did this tour at 11.00 on 02/02/25. After searching different options we chose this tour after reading the reviews. We are so pleased that we did the tour, as the guide was so nice and friendly. Her knowledge was great. We learnt so much about the history of everywhere we went. The tour started with a surprise virtual history tour, (virtual head goggles) which was so good. Showed you how Venice was created and how it changed over centuries. The actual tour started at the palaces in Saint mars square, then all around little lanes around the back, taking in some wonderful sights, that we would never have seen by ourselves, and ending at Rialto bridge. The guide offered to take anyone back to the start from Rialto bridge with her, if you didn’t want to stay in the area at the end of the tour. I cannot remember the tour guides name. She said that she doesn’t always work for the company, which is a Shane, as she is a natural at it. We did this tour which included a gondola ride, which is so worth doing. To see the canals and bridges from a different view was fantastic. Both these trips were so worth doing, especially for the price. A gondola ride was priced a €90 everywhere once here. Ours worked out to be around €50 doing this tour. So definitely book before you go.
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Kate
Jan 19, 2025
Interesting tour of Venice - Our tour guide, Gloria, was informative, entertaining and enthusiastic about her home town of Venice. We had a wonderful two hours learning about both the historical and present day Venice, with Gloria providing personal touches from her childhood. Even the teenagers enjoyed the tour!
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Sisisb2025
Jan 14, 2025
2 very pleasant hours - It's not the usual tour immersed in the crowd of tourists so I really enjoyed it, a light walk of 2 hours. Valentina conducted the visit in 2 languages (Italian and English) and was able to maintain a good return anyway. With her we saw corners and areas that otherwise with we would have never visited was a great choice!! The only flaw is that in the period we were there were few tours in Italian. For the rest I recommend it
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Paolagrimeri
Jan 12, 2025
A tour of Venice at the TOP! - Very nice and interesting tour, our guide Valentina was very good , explained really well , making the whole tour very enjoyable, taking us to places that alone we would never have visited. I highly recommend it. Thanks again for the wonderful experience.
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Pallypatch
Jan 12, 2025
Walking tour of Venice. - What an interesting tour. The guide Valentina was great she switched between languages and carried our interest. Well done
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Footprints789754
Jan 15, 2025
Interesting but better to start with a more general tour first - The guide was knowledgeable but came off as a little bored. At the end there was a free VR experience for a few minutes in a bookshop, which was unexpected and really great.
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H7704lcfrancescac
Feb 13, 2025
Not very unusual tour - It was very disappointing and I wouldn’t recommend this tour. It promised “unusual “ but didn’t deliver. The tour guide is a local & it would have been fantastic to hear some myths & fokelore about Venice. She showed us a few things & that was that. She was lovely but not very engaging. We could have walked around ourselves without having paid for this.
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