HIDDEN VENICE AUGUST 21ST 2016 08:30 – 13:30
Do you love Venice and want to see it again? Today we have the opportunity to experience an unexplored Venice tour, the city of a thousand bridges and channels!
08:20 the tour-leader Rossana Faggian m +39 3395259031 is waiting for you at the reception, near EME2016 staff desk, in the main lobby of the hotel.
08:30 departure by private coach from hotel BHR to Venice Tronchetto Park. All on board of the People mover, the monorail that takes us to Piazzale Roma in few minutes.
09:30 we meet the guide Mrs Giovanna Lorenzon. She will lead us through a suggestive route, the less widely known places of Venice, far from the centre crowded with tourists, among alleys, salizada (streets) and courtyards, gardens and secret corners of the city.
The walk allows us to explore the city tasting its most authentic atmosphere, discovering its habits and traditions, folklore and oldest legends. We will reach first Sestiere Dorsoduro that has a quite daytime atmosphere and then Sestriere San Polo.
San Polo is situated within the upper curve of the Grand Canal; a fairly small district with lots of quite lanes and pleasant campi, Venetian squares.
Campo San Polo, the area’s hub, is the largest open space in Venice after Piazza San Marco; a wide, irregular, dusty sort of square where local children and pet dogs run and play while adults chat.
The six “Sestieri” of Venice are the historic districts in which the city is divided. Cannaregio, Castello, Dorsoduro, San Marco, San Polo and Santa Croce are so called since the days of the Venetian Republic, when they were administrative districts and were represented by the city’s Ducal Counsellors.
Each district has its own story to tell, all starting with a central nucleus around which people strived to clean up the surrounding lands, to reclaim square meters from the swamp where to build houses, palaces, and churches. Venice arose all like this!
11:30 end of the tour. On board of the people mover again to reach the Tronchetto and transfer to the BHR hotel in Treviso in time for lunch.
13:30 arrival at your hotel.
Euro 60,00 per person (LAST SEATS AVAILABLE)