Venice in 3 days: the floating city that defies logic — Byzantine gold mosaics, Renaissance painting, island glass-blowing, and the silence of the canals after midnight.
8,000 m² of gold mosaic in the finest Byzantine church in the West — arrive at opening to beat the queues.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe seat of Venetian power — the Bridge of Sighs, the Council Hall with the world's largest oil painting.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe oldest bacaro in Venice — baccalà on bread and sarde in saor with an ombra of wine.
45 minutes end-to-end on the world's finest urban waterway — Ca' d'Oro, Rialto, Santa Maria della Salute.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe 1591 bridge at sunset with gondolas below — the most photographed view in Venice.
Black cuttlefish ink risotto and sarde in saor at a Venetian trattoria.
The island of glass since 1291 — the maestri glassblowing live and the Glass Museum.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe fishing village of violently coloured houses — each one a different saturated shade.
The finest restaurant on Burano since 1965 — fresh lagoon fish and Friuli white wine.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideVenice's own cocktail at the campo where Venetians actually drink it.
The canals by lamp light in silence — the most romantic 30 minutes in Europe.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideBellini, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Veronese — 600 years of Venetian painting in chronological order.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuidePollock, Picasso, Dalí and Giacometti on the Grand Canal in Guggenheim's own palazzo.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe great white Baroque dome at the entrance to the Grand Canal in the evening light.
Mixed fried lagoon seafood — calamari, scampi, tiny fish in light batter. Venice's finest casual dish.
The most beautiful square in the world, completely empty — or flooded with acqua alta.