Highlights and quieter calli
Venice, First Encounter
From the ancient market of Rialto to Piazza San Marco: a concise, thoughtful introduction that gives you the confidence to continue discovering Venice on your own.
2 hours · Private · €380
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Venice,personally.
Venice has been the landscape of my life — and it still has the power to surprise me. Let me introduce you to the city I know, with depth, warmth and the freedom of a day designed entirely around you.
Discover the experiences ↘A private encounter with Venice.
Beyond the expected
Beautiful places are easy to show. I want to share the Venice that stays with you.
We may stand beneath the mosaics of St Mark’s, enter the rooms where the Republic governed, or cross a quiet residential campo. The itinerary matters — but so do conversation, curiosity and the pleasure of having time.
Private experiences
Choose your Venice
Thoughtfully prepared, unhurried and adapted to you.
A private full day
Venice Unveiled
From the spaces of everyday life to the ceremonial heart of the Republic: six hours to understand how Venice became an idea before it became an image.
6 hours · Private · €1,100
↗Sacred and political Venice
St Mark’s Basilica After Hours
After the doors close, read the basilica through architecture, mosaic, ritual, light and the idea of Venice it was created to make visible.
90 minutes · From €500
↗Power after hours
The Doge’s Palace
A palace without fortifications, a government built upon ritual and representation: read the visual language of Venetian power after closing time.
2 hours · Private · €370
↗Islands by private water limousine
The Venetian Lagoon
A day across the lagoon to encounter Murano’s glass, Burano’s lace and colour, and the quieter landscapes where the story of Venice began.
7 hours · Private · €2,500
↗The district from above and within
St Mark’s & Hidden Gems
Begin with Venice at your feet from St Mark’s Campanile, then leave the expected route to discover remarkable churches, intimate campi and architectural surprises.
3 hours · Private · €540
↗A long day on an open boat
The Lagoon, the Venetian Way
Nine unhurried hours to cross the lagoon as Venetians do: glass and mosaics, island paths and local flavours, with time for the unexpected and, when conditions allow, a swim at the bacàn.
May–September · 9 hours · €2,700
↗Venice from its most beautiful waterway
Grand Canal Cruise
One private hour aboard a classic Venetian wooden motorboat, with prosecco served as palaces, bridges and quieter canals reveal the city from the perspective for which it was built.
1 hour · Private · From €390
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Reading Venice’s Sacred and Political Heart
St Mark’s Basilica
After Hours
90 minutes30 min outside60 min inside
01 / 09
There is a difference between seeing St Mark’s Basilica and understanding what it was made to do.
After the doors close and the movement of the day subsides, St Mark’s can be experienced differently: not simply as one of the world’s most extraordinary monuments, but as a place where architecture, images, ritual, light and political power were brought together to give visible form to an idea of Venice.
Built beside the Doge’s Palace as the ducal chapel of the Venetian Republic, the basilica was never merely a magnificent setting for worship. Here, the sacred and the political continually met. The Evangelist’s presence, the imagery of the mosaics, the organisation of space and the ceremonies performed within it all participated in the construction of Venetian identity.
The experience
From the idea
to the space
- 01 · Before we enter
Piazza San Marco
We begin where St Mark’s itself begins: with Venice. Outside the basilica, we reconstruct the world that produced it — the Republic, the Doge, the arrival and presence of St Mark, and the extraordinary relationship between sacred and political space in the Piazza.
Approximately 30 minutes - 02 · Crossing the threshold
The architecture of experience
Inside, the questions raised in the square take visible form. We read the building’s five-domed plan, its processional direction, its changing light and the way architecture organised the encounter between the Doge, the state, the sacred and the people.
- 03 · Gold and images
The mosaic programme
Rather than moving from masterpiece to masterpiece, we ask why particular images occupy particular places. The mosaics become a visual order: biblical history, the presence of the Evangelist and Venice’s understanding of its own place in time.
- 04 · A living space
Ritual, light and meaning
We consider how ceremonies animated the basilica and transformed architecture into lived space. In the stillness of the evening, the gold is no longer simply decoration: it becomes light, atmosphere and meaning.
Approximately 60 minutes inside
Private options
Always private
with Romy.
Your visit is always personally guided by me. Choose whether the basilica is shared with a limited number of other private visits, or reserved exclusively for your party.
Private guided visit
€500
for 1–2 guests
- 90-minute private experience with Romy
- Basilica shared with a limited number of other private visits
- Each additional guest: €130
Exclusive access
€2,000
for your private party
- 90-minute private experience with Romy
- The time slot is reserved exclusively for your guests
- A completely private encounter with St Mark’s
Photography: Romy Rigattieri
Your guide
Venice shaped
the way I see.
I’m Romy — a Venetian and a licensed guide since 2016. For me, guiding is not simply about knowing the city, but about helping another person truly encounter it.
My way of reading Venice grew from years of study. At Ca’ Foscari University, I graduated with honours in Languages and Anglo-American and Hispano-American Literatures, and later earned a Master’s degree with honours in History of the Arts and Conservation of Cultural Heritage. I then completed a postgraduate diploma in Theological Hermeneutics of Christian Art at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, also with honours.
These different paths — languages, literature, art history and the theological hermeneutics of Christian art — allow me to connect places with the ideas, rituals and human stories that gave them meaning. Yet our time together remains personal and effortless: a genuine conversation, paced around you, in the city that has formed my gaze.
Ca’ Foscari University · VeniceLanguages & Literatures · 110/110 with honours
Ca’ Foscari University · VeniceMaster’s Degree in History of the Arts & Cultural Heritage · 110/110 with honours
Theological Faculty of Central Italy · FlorencePostgraduate Diploma in Theological Hermeneutics of Christian Art · 110/110 with honours
Private by design
Your time.
Your Venice.
Made around you
Your interests, your pace and your questions shape the experience from the beginning.
Time to enjoy
No recited script and no hurried checklist — just the space to look, ask and understand.
Genuinely Venetian
A personal introduction to the history, beauty and everyday intelligence of my city.
Guest reviews
What remains
after Venice.
The most meaningful measure of a private experience is what guests remember once the day is over. You can read their independently published reviews on the platforms where they booked with me.
Begin a conversation
Tell me about
your Venice.
When are you coming, who are you travelling with, and what would make the experience truly yours?
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