Discovering Venice – City tours February 19, 2009

If you are planning to visit Venice with your family or some friends discoveringvenice.com is the web site you need.  Discoveringvenice is a web site formed by registered tour guides members of the authorized Association of Guides in Venice. The three of us love art and history and are graduated in these subjects. We have been organizing tours in Venice in English, Spanish and Italian since we became authorized guides in 2000.  Discoveringvenice.com offers a wide range of city tours, many different ways to approach the city on foot or by boat. If you have never visited Venice you can choose the itinerary “Classic Venice” and we will  show you the historical highlights of the city belonging to the ancient Serenissima Republic: Saint Mark’s Basilica and the unique Doge’s Palace, bridge of Sighs and old prisons. Another must is the “Rialto” tour where you can breathe the acient mercantile flavour of the city but at the same time see one of most pictoresque food market in Italy. 

Visiting the old Venetian districts, the “sestieri”, with your guide you will have the privilege to get in touch with unusual areas of the city and with its handcraft and daily life but always with an eye to its past full of history and art. Together we can visit the monumental Gran Canal by private boat or have a nice trip sailing the Venetian lagoon and stopping in its famous islands, Murano Burano and Torcello. If you are interested in art we can take you to visit the beautiful Accademia Galleries, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and all the other Venetian art galleries and museums. We also have a guide specialized in contemporary art who can take you to the new prestigious contemporary art center at palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana opened since June 2009. Kids are well accepted and we can organize costumized tours for them. As you can see visiting our website discoveringvenice.com we propose many different city tours but  we are keen to organize personalized itineriaries to meet your own wishes.
For reservations  please contact discoverinvenice.com

Bed & Breakfast Casa delle Rose Lido, Venice November 10, 2008

Lido island is the main island nearby Venice, a place where the Venetian go at the beach on the Adriatic Sea but it is also the place where the world famous Venice film festival is celebrated.

The Casa delle Rose, a beautiful apartment in liberty 20’s style, it is very close to the Vaporetto (the public boat transportation of Venice) terminal, that connects in about 15 minutes, Lido island with the main historical centre of Venice. This nicely decorated apartment is composed of 3 elegant and large rooms all equipped with Satellite TV, Sofas, and even safety box where to leave your valuables. Two bathrooms are at disposal and the dinning room and kitchen are overlooking the romantic Venice Lagoon. A particular plus is the garden where during warm season (from end of April to September) you may relax in a quiet atmosphere.

Home owners Elaine and Stefano will surely be helpful and will try to make as comfortable as they can, preparing a nice breakfast every morning, but being at disposal and charming.

So, “Casa delle Rose” is a gracious bed and breakfast near Venice that offers a nice way to visit Venice and its interesting surroundings in an alternative way of the classic Hotel. A special mention to the location that is something also to be considered as you will have easy access to the centre of Venice with a short ride or you may be even more comfortable if you are interested in visiting less over known places like the Giardini, the church of S. Pietro di Castello, and many other interesting but yet less crowded places.

Contacts: B & B Casa delle Rose via Smirne 11 – Lido Venice

Ph.: +39.041.5261108 mail info@casadellerose.net

 

 

Venicecharms.com a Venice Travel portal June 7, 2008

Venicecharms.com seems just another travel portal on Venice, and for some aspects obviously it is. By navigating through it you will be able to catch many useful information likewise any other Venice travel portal, however, the selection of information is very careful and aims to propose interesting high quality solution for your stay in Venice.

Shops, unique itineraries to discover hidden parts of Venice, short histories and curiosities on Venice monuments, most typical and traditional events like the Historical regatta or the magnificent Redentore festivity, Restaurant selection and short history of local cuisine.  Venice is always a surprise and Venicecharms.com helps you discover it from a different point of view.

A separated special mention has to be done for the Hotel section, which is a selection of 4 star Venice Hotels, even bookable directly, in fact Venicecharms.com is an informative website and does not intermediates on Hotel reservations like the most famous Hotel portals, that is a strategic difference when you have to consider to book your Hotel, in such a way you will be sure to have always the best available rate.

Since this is an informative website, and information flow is constantly going, venicecharms.com will be adding more and more contents and features, we suggest, to take a look every once in a while to discover more and more about the beautiful city of Venice.

http://www.venicecharms.com/

Venice Restaurants – La Caravella October 28, 2007

La Caravella is an historical elegant Venice Restaurant, that began activity in the early 60’s as was transformed from a successful piano-bar named Ciro’s  very well known in Venice and even internationally (mentioned in by Simone de Beauvoir in one of her books).La Caravella immediately became one of the most successful restaurant, especially renowned for its French wine and the flambé dishes.Nowadays the restaurant has gained the typical Venetian courtyard in which, during nice season, from spring to autumn meals are served among beautiful and very caracteristic wells.  La Caravella has typical Venetian cuisine offering dishes for the historical culinary tradition of Venice, like “sarde in saor” sardines fried and then marinated in onion, raisins and pine-nuts, or a steamed spider crab are not to be left out “risi e bisi” rice cooked with fresh green peas, which are prepared not like a risotto, but is more likely a soup.  Among the many Venice Restaurants, La Caravella has a good balance between price and quality, remembering that Venice is a bit on the expensive side, consider this restaurant if you are looking for a first class restaurant where to have and unforgettable experience.