Some practical and useful information to enjoy your visit
Guided tours in Venice
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Museums and churches
Entrance to churches is permitted with shoulders covered and Bermuda shorts up to the knees. On Sunday morning is not possible to visit the churches. It is generally not permitted to enter museums or churches with large bags or backpacks. Museums have a free left-luggage service, for St Mark’s Basilica there is a paid left-luggage service close to St Mark’s Square.
Most Italian museums require the purchase of tickets online, which are hourly. In Venice it is advisable to do, so to reduce the wait at the queues. I will provide you with all the information I will give you all advice how/when to do book entrances.
Restaurants, high tide, transportation
If you need some good tips of restaurants or hotels, write to me. I live in Venice and I like good restaurants too! 😃
In autumn and winter the city can be flooded for a few hours by high water (acqua alta). Don’t worry, if the MO.SE (dam) is not active, I will help you to organize your itineraries according to the altitude of Venice, and equipped routes on footbridges. The pedestrian circulation in San Marco and the entrance to the churches and museums may change when the tide is high.
Useful links
Public transport In Venice: //www.actv.it The public transport consists of Vaporetto or motoscafi (water-buses), which I recommend you use only for traveling and getting from place to place; you will hardly be able to take scenic tours in tourist season because they are always quite overcrowded. However, there are private alternatives for panoramic tours by boat, like the water-taxis and hop-on/hop-off boats. The vaporetto is a necessary transport for people living in Venice for persons with disabilities and mums with baby carriages. Please do not stand on the steps blocking the entrance and if you stand in front of the exit, it means you want to get off at the next stop.
www.visitmuve.it – This is the website for Civic Museums of Venice (tickets for the Doge’s palace, Correr Museum, Glass Museum etc…). I suggest to buy tickets always from the official website of each museum. For the basilica of Saint Mark skip-the-line tickets are also available.
Marco Polo Airport: https://www.veneziaairport.it
Arriving by train: www.trenitalia.it or http://www.italotreno.it
Your qualified guide in Rome. https://romesdetails.com/
Accessible Venice/Accessible itineraries
Venice city is built on islands connected with 400 bridges, where you can only walk or travel by boat. To organise better your visit and to be able to give you the best advice, please let me know in advance if you are using any wheelchair or agility scooter. Here is a list of accessible itineraries on the website of the Municipality of Venice (In Italian) and a useful map of Venice accessible.
Qualified guides of the city of Venice and Veneto Region
Make sure that your guide follows sustainable and respectful working criteria for Venice and its inhabitants and make sure your guide is licensed, before booking.
Until 2024, every licensed guide was registered in the register of the Region or Province where he/she had specialized and passed the qualification exam (in practice of the territory she had studied in depth). The rule served to protect the customer and guarantee the standard of quality of the guide. If you want to know the list of licensed guides in the Veneto provinces as at 2024, and find out if your guide has passed a specialist examination on Venice (art, history, culture, architecture) you can consult the list, just click on the link. The list is only for your information.
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