Cicchetti & Wine Tour of Venice
Wine + food + traghetti = Venice personified. Join this best selling Venice tour to dose yourself up on Venetian culture in the form of local food specialties and regional wines. It’s the Italian way!
Venice Food & Wine Tour Highlights
- Learn about Venice culture and daily life
- Discover the delicious range of local cicchetti dishes on this Venice tour
- Experience the buzz of Italian Bacari wine bars
- Ride a traditional traghetto into the Rialto area
- Sample local wines and fresh Venetian cuisine
- Get a history lesson while sipping wine
Inclusions: Local English-speaking guide, traghetto gondola crossing (weather permitting), Rialto food market visit (morning tour only), food and wine as indicated, and travel advice for your days in Venice.
Exclusions: Items of a personal nature, and tips or gratuities for guide.
Schedule details
- Duration: 2.5 hours
- Meeting point: Campo della Maddalena, Cannaregio.
- Starting time: 11.30 AM, 5.15 PM
- Ending point: Rialto Bridge
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This tour is the perfect introduction to Venice, giving you an overview of the city’s unrivalled history and a taster of its world-famous cuisine.
Your adventure begins in the Cannaregio neighbourhood, one of the few remaining residential areas of Venice, known for being a popular afterwork meeting spot for thirsty locals. We will take a gentle stroll around and chat about its 1,000 year history and your local guide will offer suggestions on other things to see and do during your stay.
A ride in a traditional, stand-up traghetto gondola is next as we cross the Grand Canal the way the locals do.
Once in Rialto, the food tasting can begin! A briefing on local products at the market (only available in the morning tour) precedes our first stop at a small eatery, owned by a group of young locals with a passion for experimenting with traditional recipes, giving them a modern twist. Expect dishes such as black ink calamari, polenta with seafood or seasonal vegetables (served in elaborate dishes).
Our second foodie stop is a historic spot which will help you better understand the envy-inducing culture of bacari in Venice and how to enjoy this experience while you’re flying solo around the city.
A few secret and hidden spots near the Rialto are up next, which will demonstrate the importance of moving just one street away from the tourist hordes, to get a little slice of Venice to yourself.
The tour will end at the iconic Rialto bridge, which is surrounded by great restaurants and shops. Your guide will be happy to help you with recommendations for continuing the fun or with directions to help you back to your accommodation.
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Additional information
Inclusions: Local English-speaking guide, traghetto gondola crossing (weather permitting), Rialto food market visit (morning tour only), food and wine as indicated, and travel advice for your days in Venice.
Exclusions: Items of a personal nature, and tips or gratuities for guide.
Dress standard: There is no standard dress. Please bring comfortable shoes.
Your Trip: For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people.
Confirmation of booking: If you have your voucher, your booking is confirmed. We’ll see you at the start point. Get in touch if you have any concerns or require more information via the email address or phone number (business hours only) on your voucher.
Additional Information: There may be a change of itinerary according to opening times of bars and restaurants along the way depending on how crowded they are. However, all the bars you are taken to are of the same standard, so you will not be missing out if the itinerary does change.
Child Policy: Children between the ages of 6 and 11 inclusively are permitted on this tour at the rate listed above. Please select ‘child’ above when booking. Children below the age of 6 are not permitted on this tour.
Local contact
Office phone number: + 39 348 980 8566
Email address: [email protected]
