A thirty-minute gondola tour will show you the Venice at its most authentic.
Board a unique boat, unlike any other in the world, propelled only by muscle-power, balance, and sympathy of your gondolier. From shore to shore, under the bridges, slip between water and sky along a thousand-year-old network of channels and streams. Be astonished by the stately monuments as the water flows past and take in the heady atmosphere of views that can only be accessed by gondola.
You'll also learn more about this masterpiece of engineering by visiting a "squero” where also gondolas are still built by hand, following a closely guarded tradition passed down through the generations. Learn the secrets held within its 11 metres and 600 kilos: the asymmetric shape that gives it a distinctive lean, the flat bottom that allows it to float in just a few centimetres of water, and the eight different types of wood that make up its 280 parts.
