Guide · Italy

Venice and the Veneto

Begin with two days in Venice, then continue to Verona, Padua and the mountain landscape around Tre Cime di Lavaredo.

5 days7 stopsModerate pace

The trip, in order

Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.

Day 1

St Mark’s civic centre

Venice

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    St Mark's Basilica

    Its domes, mosaics and marble-clad façades express the eastern Mediterranean connections that shaped medieval Venice. The present basilica was largely built from the eleventh century as the ceremonial church of Venice, incorporating Byzantine forms and mosaics shaped by the republic’s eastern connections.

    Duration
    60 minutes suggested
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    Doge's Palace

    The palace joins ceremonial rooms, government chambers, courts and prisons in the former political centre of the Venetian Republic. The present Gothic palace developed mainly from the fourteenth century as the residence of the doge and the working centre of the Venetian Republic’s government and courts.

    Duration
    90 minutes suggested
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Day 2

Rialto and Grand Canal

Venice

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    Rialto Bridge

    The Rialto Bridge crosses the Grand Canal in a single stone arch lined with shops and outer walkways, combining a working route with close views of water traffic. Its late-sixteenth-century form replaced earlier wooden crossings at Venice’s historic commercial centre.

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    60 minutes suggested
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    Grand Canal

    The Grand Canal is Venice’s principal waterway, curving past palace façades and landing stages that were designed to face the water. A vaporetto journey reveals this sequence clearly, while the bridges provide slower viewpoints over everyday canal traffic.

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    60 minutes suggested
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Day 3

Roman Verona

Verona

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    Verona Arena

    Verona Arena is a landmark in Verona that forms a recognisable part of the city’s public space, architecture and historical identity. The Roman amphitheatre was built in the first century CE and remains one of Verona’s most substantial surviving ancient monuments.

    Duration
    60 minutes suggested
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Day 4

Pilgrimage and university city

Padua

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    Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

    Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua is a major religious monument in Padua, valued for its architecture, art and place in the city’s historical development. The present religious complex in Padua reflects multiple phases of construction, alteration and artistic patronage.

    Duration
    60 minutes suggested
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Day 5

Tre Cime landscape

Auronzo di Cadore

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    Tre Cime di Lavaredo

    Tre Cime di Lavaredo is a major natural or cultural landscape around Auronzo di Cadore, combining distinctive terrain with long-established patterns of settlement, farming, walking or recreation. The present landscape around Auronzo di Cadore is the result of long geological and environmental processes, later shaped in places by farming, settlement, transport and recreation.

    Duration
    180 minutes suggested
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