About Venice Tour

When you'll arrive at the Port with the Cruise, but also from the City, your Private Guide Elisabetta will wait for you in Piazza San Marco under the 'Colonna Leone', a place that you'll reach by taxi Boat from where ever you are, and she'll be there handling a sign with your last name.

With Elisabetta you'll visit S. Mark's Square, the Church and the Doge's Palace including the Bridge of Sighs and the Prisons (ticket cost is 13 € per person for the Museum), lenght of this first part of the morning is around 2/3 hours.

Then you will go to the Rialto market crossing the most fameous bridge of Venice where you'll enjoy your lunch made of fish and where you can taste the special local wine.. Right after lunch the Tour will keep going with the visit at Murano and/or Burano Islands, to the 'Glass Factory' known from all around the world for his exclusive style and beautiful objects made by a local craftsman.

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Murano - The Glass Factory
In 1295 it decreed that the glass of Venice, probably already active before the thousand, were transferred to Murano because the furnaces of the laboratories were often responsible for disastrous fires, which became particularly serious because at the buildings were mostly wooden.

Focusing on the Murano glass used to the Venetian Republic to better monitor the activity, jealous of an art that was made famous worldwide from the beginning. The master glassmakers were forced to live on the island and could not leave Venice without a special permit. Many, however, managed to escape abroad by exporting their famous techniques. The most important crisis that hit the industry was that of the fifteenth century when they began the manufacture of crystal of Bohemia, perhaps inspired by the same glass from Murano. Venice it came out, especially since the glass was used for the construction of chandeliers, still among the best-known artefacts of Murano.

Only the master glassmakers, among non-noble, could marry daughters of patricians. The Republic is issued a decree, following the unrest occurring in the Greater Council of Murano, Murano citizens stated that only those who were born on the island or had purchased property in it. In 1602, the mayor Barbarigo in the census islanders, appeals to compile a Book of Gold. The procedure for registration was neither simple nor short and it was only through consensus of the Republic. Who was not writing could not carry out any work in glass, did not attend the recommendations and not received all other privileges granted to citizens Murano.