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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A City, a Republic, a Way of Life
Venice
Unveiled
6 hoursPrivate full dayUp to 8 guests
A day to see Venice as a whole — and understand how its different worlds belong together.
Venice can easily become a succession of extraordinary sights. This day is different. Rather than trying to fit the city into a checklist, we build a story that connects its lived neighbourhoods, its commercial energy and the ceremonial heart of the Republic.
We move from quiet calli and residential campi to Rialto and finally Piazza San Marco. Along the way, everyday life, trade, faith, architecture and political power become different ways of reading the same city.
By the time we enter the Doge’s Palace and St Mark’s Basilica, they no longer stand apart as isolated masterpieces. They become the culmination of everything we have encountered throughout the day.
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One cityMany VenicesOne connected story
What you will learn to see
The city
behind the beauty
Venice as a lived city
Calli, campi and residential areas reveal how Venice was organised, inhabited and experienced beyond its monumental centre.
Rialto and trade
The bridge and market introduce the commercial world that made Venice one of the great powers of the Mediterranean.
Venice and the world
Through figures such as Marco Polo, we meet a city shaped by movement, cultural exchange, goods and ideas.
Faith and community
Churches, confraternities and campi reveal the Venice of parishes, devotion, patronage and social life.
The Doge’s Palace
Inside the seat of government, we explore how authority was organised — and how art and architecture made that system visible.
St Mark’s Basilica
Beside the Palace, the ducal chapel reveals the relationship between religion, civic power and the Evangelist at the heart of the Republic.
A Venetian pause
Time to stop,
talk and taste.
At some point during the day, we pause in a bacaro. Over a drink and a few cicchetti, there is time to talk, follow a question and let the different pieces of Venice come together. Food and drinks are not included, so the pause remains entirely yours.
An optional chapter
Murano:
the intelligence of making
For guests who wish to include Murano, the day extends across the lagoon by private water taxi. The journey reveals another Venice: a civilisation shaped by water, islands and the geography of the lagoon.
Inside a working furnace, we observe a Maestro vetraio transform molten glass through skills rooted in centuries of specialised knowledge. Murano is not added as another attraction: the whole route is reshaped so that craftsmanship, technical intelligence and experimentation belong to the larger story of Venice.
Including Murano changes the route, not the depth of the experience.
Choose your day
One Venice.
Two ways to enter it.
Both experiences are private and personally guided by Romy for parties of up to eight guests.
Venice Unveiled
€1,100
6 hours · private party
- Residential Venice, Rialto and San Marco
- Doge’s Palace and St Mark’s Basilica
- Admission tickets calculated separately
Venice Unveiled · Murano
€1,500
8 hours · private party
- A full day in Venice and across the lagoon
- Working furnace and Maestro vetraio
- Private water taxi to Murano included
- Monument admission tickets calculated separately
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?
Prefer to write directly?
info@venicewithromy.com