Guided tour

Venice: Giudecca Island Discover Walking Tour

Activity provider: Detourist
Guided tour

Venice: Giudecca Island Discover Walking Tour

Activity provider: Detourist

From US$ 61.82 per person

Get introduced to the sights of Giudecca on a guided island discovery walking tour. Explore the island's trendy artistic district and walk past gardens, art galleries, and residential neighborhoods.

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Duration 2 hours
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Live tour guide
English, German, Italian, Spanish
Private or small groups available

Experience

Highlights
  • Take in the fresh sea air and scenery on a waterbus ride to Giudecca
  • Get to know the wonders of the island on foot with a local guide
  • Discover both local-favorite sights and lesser-known hidden gems
  • Spend a day outside admiring another side of Venice’s beauty
  • Spot local architecture, colorful neighborhoods, and green gardens
Full description

Discover the fishbone-like shaped Giudecca Island, known to be Venice’s unofficial seventh sestiere (neighborhood), on a guided walking trip of the Island. Once an aristocratic retreat and later the city industrial center, the island nowadays boasts a trendy artistic district.

After meeting your guide for the day, set out to walk through characteristic Giudecca, the largest and closest island to Venice, from which it is separated by the broad and deep Giudecca Canal. Travel via waterbus to Giudecca and enjoy breath-taking views of the city on the way.

The peacefulness of the island has also made it popular among religious communities and with patrician families who have built palaces with gardens and allotments here.

You’ll get to see how, after the fall of the republic, these areas were converted into warehouses, barracks, prisons, factories, and workers’ quarters. Today, some of them have been converted for artistic and modern purposes.

Walk through the long pedestrian quay running the length of the island’s Venice-facing side and wander around its hidden lagoon-facing side with lush gardens, inspiring galleries, and neighborhoods. 

Includes
  • Tour leader/nature and interpretive guide
  • Walking tour
  • Waterbus ticket to Giudecca (purchase on-board)
  • Tips
Not suitable for
  • People with mobility impairments
  • Wheelchair users

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Meeting point

Meet your guide in front of the Church of Saint Mary of the Rosary, also known as Gesuati.

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Guida da ripetere

May 21, 2022

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VALERIO war sehr nett und kompetent und hat uns viel über die Insel erzählenkönnen. Wir können ihn und die Tour wärmstens weiter empfehlen

March 5, 2022

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