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Vivaldi Tintoretto and Marco Polo: An Audio Tour of Venice
Venezia
Important Information
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Wheelchair accessible
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Venice’s residential neighbourhoods tell stories that tourists often miss. On this self-guided audio tour, you’ll journey from the historic Jewish Ghetto to Antonio Vivaldi’s birthplace. You’ll encounter Renaissance master Tintoretto’s home and works, and explore the trading empire around the Rialto Bridge. You’ll also trace Antonio Vivaldi’s legacy, and find out how his music was nearly lost before its rediscovery in the 1900s. The tour starts at Ponte delle Guglie, a bridge from the 1200s spanning the Cannaregio Canal. You’ll walk through the Venetian Jewish Ghetto, established in 1516 as Europe’s first designated ghetto, and see hidden synagogues and distinctive tall buildings that reflec...
Highlights
From 1 hour and 9 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 1 hour and 9 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
App for Android and iOS
Directions to the starting point so that when you’re in the right place, the tour will start
Smartphone and headphones
Transportation
Food and drink
Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Meeting Points
Departure
Ponte delle Guglie
This tour starts at The bridge delle Guglie. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Return
San Giovanni in Bragora
Tour ends at the church of San Giovanni in Bragora.
Itinerary
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Ponte delle guglie
Cross this elegant stone bridge dating from the 1200s, its distinctive spired pillars rising above the Cannaregio Canal. This is where your journey into Venice's hidden residential neighbourhoods begins, far from the crowds gathered around the Grand Canal.
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Cannaregio
Stroll through one of Venice's oldest and most authentic districts, where locals shop, children play, and laundry hangs between weathered facades. This is the neighbourhood that gave rise to Europe's first Jewish Ghetto in 1516, and its narrow streets still carry the weight of that history.
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Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
Marvel at the Gothic facade of this waterfront church, home to some of Tintoretto's largest and most powerful canvases still hanging in their original setting. The Renaissance master lived just steps away and is buried here, making this one of the most intimate connections between an artist and a place anywhere in Venice.
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Ponte de Chiodo
Pass over this small and unassuming bridge, one of the last in Venice without protective railings on either side. Its simplicity is a quiet reminder of how the city looked before modernisation, when bridges like this were commonplace across the lagoon.
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Ponte di Rialto
Walk across Venice's most famous stone bridge, completed in the 1590s after decades of debate over its design. For centuries this was the only crossing over the Grand Canal, and the bustling market district around it made it the commercial heart of the entire trading empire.
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Parrocchia di Santa Maria Formosa
Explore the wide campo surrounding this Renaissance church, one of the few open squares in Venice spacious enough to feel like a true public piazza. The church itself was built on a site where a vision of the Virgin Mary was said to have appeared, and the neighbourhood around it still feels lived-in and unhurried.
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Chiesa di San Giorgio dei Greci
Admire this elegant Orthodox church built by Byzantine refugees who fled to Venice after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Their community became deeply woven into Venetian life, and the complex they built here remains one of the finest examples of Greek Orthodox architecture in Western Europe.
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Church of the Pietà - Saint Mary of the Visitation
Stand before the church where Antonio Vivaldi taught orphaned girls whose musical gifts inspired some of his greatest compositions. The acoustics inside remain extraordinary, and concerts performed here today connect visitors directly to the world Vivaldi inhabited in the early 1700s.
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Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora
Enter the ancient parish church where Antonio Vivaldi was baptised in 1678, its interior modest but quietly moving. This is where your tour ends, in a neighbourhood that nurtured one of the Baroque era's most original voices before his music was nearly forgotten entirely.
Vivaldi Tintoretto and Marco Polo: An Audio Tour of Venice
Venezia
About
Venice’s residential neighbourhoods tell stories that tourists often miss. On this self-guided audio tour, you’ll journey from the historic Jewish Ghetto to Antonio Vivaldi’s birthplace. You’ll encounter Renaissance master Tintoretto’s home and works, and explore the trading empire around the Rialto Bridge. You’ll also trace Antonio Vivaldi’s legacy, and find out how his music was nearly lost before its rediscovery in the 1900s. The tour starts at Ponte delle Guglie, a bridge from the 1200s spanning the Cannaregio Canal. You’ll walk through the Venetian Jewish Ghetto, established in 1516 as Europe’s first designated ghetto, and see hidden synagogues and distinctive tall buildings that reflec...
Highlights
From 1 hour and 9 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 1 hour and 9 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
App for Android and iOS
Directions to the starting point so that when you’re in the right place, the tour will start
Smartphone and headphones
Transportation
Food and drink
Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Meeting Points
Departure
Ponte delle Guglie
This tour starts at The bridge delle Guglie. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Return
San Giovanni in Bragora
Tour ends at the church of San Giovanni in Bragora.