1.     Day: Venice and its “campi”

Welcome to Venice! After settling in your room ... you will immediately leave with our guide for your first “unusual” visit!!! Have you ever wondered why the squares in Venice are called “campi”? Why is there a church and at least one cistern on each one? And how was this water supplied? There are many questions about the structures and infrastructures of the city. Today you will see various Venetian fields, talking about their formation, their use, the omnipresent cisterns on them, the churches that have always occupied a part of them. On one of them you will visit the largest church in the city, also called the Venetian pantheon: The Basilica of the holy Giovanni e Paolo. Inside you can find 25 funerary monuments of Venetian doges (and not only), thanks to which you can discover the development of the funerary monument over the centuries, from an artistic and social point of view. For the first evening in Venice ... how not to miss a fresh fish dinner? You have only to bring your appetite to the restaurant… we have already thought about the menu!!!

2.     Day: Venice “Cicheti and nizioleti”

Walking through Venice you can take a journey through time and history! The possibility is offered by reading the "nizioleti" on which the toponyms of Venice are written. So the streets, the fields, the foundations, bring out anecdotes suspended between legend and reality and historical episodes that, to most of the people visiting, usually escape! And where does the word “cicheti” come from? From the Latin "ciccus", very small quantity. In Venice, "cicheti" can be translated as appetizers. The cicheti are served in the "bàcari", meeting points for friends where they talk, nibble and drink. In particular, in recent decades the bàcaro has been rediscovered and it is a "fake run-down" place where you can find everything: from fried cod, to dried tomatoes in oil, from baked cuttlefish to croutons with creamed cod, meatballs, arancini, folpetti, nerves with onion, beans and even fried prawns or mezzancolle stuck in a toothpick. Tradition includes a short stop, for a chat with friends, standing or, sometimes, even with seats but certainly not for everyone: and it will be the same for you! The program includes a walk from the Ponte delle Guglie. From here you will start the tour looking up at the "nizioleti" trying to find out the origin of the name. The quiet walk in the Ghetto area and through the Cannaregio streets will be interspersed with a visit to a typical "bacaro", it will be very pleasant and the nizioleti will give us the opportunity to tell us anecdotes known only by the Venetians. You will then go to visit the Jesuit Church which stands in the place where, starting from the 12th century, the church of the Crociferi stood, which still lives in the toponymy of the area starting from the Oratory of the Crociferi. The church is beautiful because it has recently been restored.

3.     Day: Dietro le facciate di Venezia: laboratori e manifatture

Venice is still very rich in artisan workshops, where notions, secrets, recipes, skills have been handed down for generations... They are unique arts and crafts, which in Venice find their reason to exist and to resist. Could you ever imagine that in Venice there is a factory that, on the looms of the eighteenth century, produced fabrics for places known all over the world? From the White House, to the Kremlin, to the Stockholm City Hall, to the Goeteborg Theater… fabrics also used by the most famous fashion creators, such as Valentino and Dolce and Gabbana… today you will have the opportunity to see the workmanship and productions in this truly unimaginable place. After the visit of the Bevilacqua Manufacture you will go for a walk in the western area of the Dorsoduro district, where you will discover an absolutely unknown Venice. And… at the end, so much “Venetianness” can only find rest in a place where you can taste “ombre and cicheti” accompanied by a nice plate of pasta, water and wine.

4.     Day: Goodbye!