Vivaldi Tintoretto and Marco Polo: An Audio Tour of Venice

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Vivaldi Tintoretto and Marco Polo: An Audio Tour of Venice

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1h 30m
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Overview

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 reflect centuries of enclosed life. You’ll wind through artisan streets towards the Rialto, and explore the neighbourhood where Marco Polo grew up before setting off for Asia. The tour ends at the Church of San Giovanni in Bragora, where Vivaldi was baptised in 1678 and his music still resonates today.

Activity location

Ponte delle Guglie
- Ponte delle Guglie
- 30121, Venezia, Veneto, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

Ponte delle Guglie
- Ponte delle Guglie
- 30121, Venezia, Veneto, Italy

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Vivaldi Tintoretto and Marco Polo: An Audio Tour of Venice in English

1h 30m
Opening hours: Tue 0:00-23:59
English

Travellers

Language options: English

Price details

S$11.53 x 1 AdultS$11.53

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What's included, what's not

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
Transport
Food and drink
Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour

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Wheelchair accessible
Service animals allowed
Public transport options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Ponte delle guglie (Pass by)

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.

Cannaregio (Pass by)

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.

Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto (Pass by)

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.

Ponte de Chiodo (Pass by)

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.

Ponte di Rialto (Pass by)

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.

Parrocchia di Santa Maria Formosa (Pass by)

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.

Chiesa di San Giorgio dei Greci (Pass by)

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.

Chiesa della Pietà - Santa Maria della Visitazione (Pass by)

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.

Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora (Pass by)

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.

Location

Activity location

Ponte delle Guglie
- Ponte delle Guglie
- 30121, Venezia, Veneto, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

Ponte delle Guglie
- Ponte delle Guglie
- 30121, Venezia, Veneto, Italy

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