Rialto Walking, Market & Food Tour

From GBP £100.00
  • Duration: 4 Hours (approx.)
  • Location: Venice
  • Product code: PG1GT9
Price:

Adults (age 18 & above): £100

Children (age 6-17): £91

Infants (age 0-5): Free


Explore Venice in a 4-hour walking and food tour around Rialto Bridge area. You will visit a fresh market, discover the beauties of Venice, and indulge in Venetian food and wine tastings.

 

The walk starts at Campo San Giacomo a Rialto Square that hasn’t changed since the middle ages and has been Venice's trade center for centuries.

 

You will get a real insight in the life of a Venetian by visiting the Rialto fresh fruit vegetable and fish market. You will know more about regional produce and types of fruit, vegetables, fish and meat here. The fish market in Venice is the oldest in Europe!

 

Your guide will tell you all about the places you visit. Visit some of the main highlights of Venice:

Rialto Bridge

Campo San Bartolomeo Square

Grand Canal

Marco Polo's house (from outside)

 

You will explore culinary places, have a chance to talk to local food makers and taste their work:

Typical osterias

Artisanal food producers

Traditional Bacari bars

 

At more than 6 eateries, you will go through a flavour journey with a large variety of specialties:

Cicchetti (Venetian small snacks or side dishes) 

Olives from nearby Lake Garda

Cheese from highlands of Asiago

Soft polenta chunks with marinated seafood, cuttlefish, stockfish and much more

Pasta

Regional wines and proseccos

Dessert

 

The food together is more enough than a lunch. You will also get to know fascinating culinary facts in this food journey: Do you know Tiramisù was invented in Venice?

 

The walk ends at one of Venice’s most popular squares - Campo San Giovanni e Paolo - with the massive church that housed the funerary celebrations of the city’s leaders: the Doges.