Venice Walking Tours

Venice Walking Tours offers guided exploration of one of the world's most architecturally singular cities, leading visitors through a landscape of canals, stone bridges, and medieval streetscapes that have changed little in centuries. The company's routes take in the grand sweep of the Piazza San Marco, the commercial history of the Rialto, and the quieter northern reaches of the Cannaregio sestiere, where Venice's Jewish Quarter stands as one of the oldest in Europe. The Ghetto, established in 1516, gave the English language the very word it uses for such districts, and the synagogues within it remain active places of worship and memory.

Current tours include a dedicated Jewish Quarter walk with synagogue entry, a highlights tour covering the city's most celebrated landmarks, a route running from San Marco to the Rialto that ends with a traditional Spritz, a private guided option for smaller groups, and a combined Rialto and Jewish Quarter itinerary. Each tour moves through a city built on wooden piles across a lagoon, where the absence of motor traffic makes the streets unusually quiet and the architecture unusually legible.