Venice tours and private walking tours for individuals and small groups with professional and official guides
Walks Inside Venice are official Venice tour guides who offer customized and tailor made walking tours of Venice and the surrounding area of Veneto.
Their specialist and themed itineraries are suitable for individual travellers or small private groups.
Roberta, Sara and Cristina are also native Venetians with a background in art history, foreign languages and literature and have published books on Venetian art and history.
Walks Inside Venice also arranges hotel pick-ups, free advice about restaurants, transportation, shopping, cultural events etc and even organization of wine tasting events and dinners based on the local culinary traditions in Veneto.
We have listed a few of their tours on this page but do browse the dedicated website.
selected venice itineraries
GLIDING DOWN THE GRAND CANAL
The unique ambience of the Grand Canal, Venice’s main waterway, inspired famous painters such as Canaletto, Turner, Monet and great writers like Théophile Gautier, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, just to mention a few.
Away from the most touristy areas, we’ll take a stroll typically including a stop in a wine bar, where, lulled by the sweet sound of Venetian gossip, we’ll join the natives in sipping a glass of good wine and savouring delightful tiny appetizers.
MURANO ART GLASS: LATEST TRENDS
For 800 years the tiny island of Murano has been a renowned centre of glassmaking. Today, there's still a limited number of independent glass artists able to bring this art to its highest level, combining traditional crafting techniques and modern design.
VENICE MASTER ARTISANS
Far from the beaten tracks, with the assistance of your guide, you’ll discover and make yours the “pearls” of Venice’s top handicraft tradition. Velvets, brocades, marbleised paper, books and leather bindings, papier-maché Carnival masks, gold & silver jewellery, beads and other wonders…
CICHETI AND NIZIOLETI
A gourmet discovery tour around the bustling Rialto market area. We'll drink wine and eat "cicheti" (as to say, fingerfood ) at the local "baccari" (winebars with food, the term deriving from the wine god Bacchus). Wandering from place to place we'll stop here and there to read the "nizioleti" or small sheets which are in fact street signs) that tell much about the story and people of old Venice. A late morning or late evening tour, non recommended to teetotallers.
