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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One Hour on Venice’s Most Beautiful Waterway
Grand Canal
Cruise
1 hourLuxury Venetian wooden boatUp to 8 guests
Venice was built to be approached — and understood — from the water.
This private one-hour cruise offers the rare pleasure of seeing the city from the perspective for which its palaces, bridges and façades were designed. From the Bacino di San Marco, we enter the Grand Canal and slip into quieter waterways where daily life still unfolds at water level.
Aboard a classic Venetian wooden motorboat, you travel in comfort while the city reveals itself at an unhurried pace. A glass of prosecco is offered on board as elegant palaces rise directly from the water, low bridges pass overhead and Venice becomes a living city rather than a distant postcard.
Intimate, refined and memorable, the experience is equally suited to a first encounter with Venice, a return visit or a beautiful pause within a longer day.
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A classic wooden boatVenice, privately.Prosecco on board
The route
From San Marco
to Rialto
The passage through smaller canals may be adjusted according to tide height and navigation conditions.
- 01 · The ceremonial entrance
Bacino di San Marco and La Salute
We begin where lagoon and city meet. The domes of Santa Maria della Salute and the monumental waterfront introduce Venice as a city conceived to be seen from the water.
- 02 · Palaces made for arrival
From Palazzo Dario to the Accademia
Palazzo Dario, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Palazzo Barbaro and Palazzo Franchetti Cavalli reveal façades designed for waterborne arrival before we pass beneath the Accademia Bridge.
- 03 · The Grand Canal as a history of Venice
Ca’ Rezzonico, Ca’ Foscari and the great houses
Palazzo Grassi, Ca’ Rezzonico, Ca’ Foscari, Palazzo Balbi, Palazzo Loredan and Palazzo Malipiero allow us to read centuries of ambition, taste and transformation along Venice’s principal street.
- 04 · The commercial heart
Rialto and the quieter canals
At Rialto, architecture, movement and trade come together. Whenever tide and navigation permit, smaller canals add an intimate final chapter: bridges overhead, working boats and the quiet rhythms of everyday Venice.
Private Grand Canal Cruise
From €390
One hour · Up to 8 guests
Classic luxury Venetian wooden motorboat Prosecco offered on board Up to 8 guests (€10 per additional guest from the fifth)
Total for 1–4 guests: €390. The route may vary slightly with the tide and navigation conditions.
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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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