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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Highlights, Daily Life and Quieter Calli
Venice,
First Encounter
2 hoursPrivate walking tourUp to 8 guests
01 / 06
Two hours to find your bearings — and begin to see Venice as more than a collection of landmarks.
This private walk is designed for a first meeting with Venice. It brings together the places you should not miss with quieter calli, peaceful canals and the spaces of everyday life that give the city its true character.
Beginning in San Polo and ending in Piazza San Marco, we cross the city through Rialto, Cannaregio and Castello. The route offers a clear introduction to Venice’s geography, history and social life — concise enough to leave you free to continue exploring, yet rich enough to change the way you look at what surrounds you.
The itinerary
From Rialto
to San Marco
- 01 · Where Venice traded
Campo San Giacomo di Rialto
We begin in one of the city’s most ancient places. Here we introduce Rialto as the commercial heart of the Republic and learn how trade shaped the city.
- 02 · Across the Grand Canal
Rialto Bridge and the market
Crossing the Rialto Bridge, we look at the relationship between movement, commerce and daily life — and at why Venice needed this extraordinary crossing at precisely this point.
- 03 · Merchants and journeys
The world of Marco Polo
Through the calli of Cannaregio, we reach the area associated with the Polo family. Trade, travel and the Venetian patriciate reveal a city whose identity was formed through encounters with distant worlds.
- 04 · From the lived city to the ceremonial city
Santa Maria Formosa and Piazza San Marco
We pause in the spacious Campo Santa Maria Formosa before continuing through Castello to Piazza San Marco, where Venice gives monumental form to its religious and political identity.
Private experience
€380
Two hours · Up to 8 guests
If you wish, at the end of our walk I can accompany you to begin a private gondola ride: a beautiful way to see Venice from the level of its canals. The gondola fare is not included and the ride is subject to availability.
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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?
Prefer to write directly?
info@venicewithromy.com