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With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
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1. Row Venice
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5.0 based on 1,667 reviews
Learn to row like a Venetian! Try the stand-up style made iconic by the gondoliers. You'll support this local tradition with a sustainable activity as you connect with Venice in a rare, traditional Venetian all-wood batella coda di gambero. You can't know Venice if you don’t row Venice!
2. L'albero Venezia
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5.0 based on 21 reviews
Laboratory and shop “L'albero” and products The work shop “L'albero” and born 1981 The sale meets a certain success not only with tursta you step but also with the local host. often say “ here we find different objects and original ” With returns even more times in a year. Dadoci a boost to launch always with heart and passion.
3. Better Photo Walks in Venice
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5.0 based on 231 reviews
This will be a great Photography opportunity for anyone looking for a colorful day out with their camera either by walking or by boat. Expect a great day at this World famous landmark.
4. Photo Walk Tour in Venice by Pietro
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5.0 based on 228 reviews
Photo shoot or photo workshop in Venice Italy during an amazing private walk/tour provided by the local photographer Pietro. The photoshoot is even the opportunity to really enjoy Venice with a friendly, professional photographer. The photo workshop is about improving photography skills and discovering Venice {also off the beaten path} in a creative and pleasant way.
5. Food market tour & typical Italian lunch
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5.0 based on 10 reviews
My name is Elena, i'm a professional chef living in Venice and I love to share my passion for italian cuisine with friends and travelers from all over the world. I grew up working at my parent's restaurant, where I learned the typical Italian recipes, made with local products and lot of love
6. Maria's Cookery Course - Cooking School Venice
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5.0 based on 49 reviews
For more than 10 years, for lovers of Italian food, we have been offering a unique opportunity to participate in small groups in a hands-on cooking experience in the peace of an historic Venetian Villa of the 15th century. Meeting point is in Venice: Piazzale Roma, Tronchetto Parking or at the airport. The local women of Veneto will share Countess Maria's cooking philosopy, her traditional techniques, special ingredients, and family recipes. And you'll enjoy your creation "a tavola" for lunch, together with the best Italian wines of the region. We use fresh products like the vegetables of our garden, the eggs of our chicken for making pasta, and the best products of the day that we find on the local market. Programs are offered from March to December. Our daily classes begin at 10:30 and end at around 14:30, including lunch with d.o.c. Italian wines. In the afternoon, you can enjoy food and wine traditions of Veneto taking part in our optional excursions and wine & food tasting tours. Our programs are flexible. We can customize them according to your wishes and the activities you prefer. Send us an enquiry to get your program and rates.
7. Enrica Rocca Cooking School Venice
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5.0 based on 58 reviews
Enrica Rocca runs a cookery school with a difference. “Born in Venice, Enrica is an Italian cook of note and a flamboyant and passionate chef and restaurateur. She has Italian cooking in her blood and a contagious zest for life and food…” David BakerFinancial Times
8. Venice Italian School
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5.0 based on 261 reviews
Buongiorno! Venice Italian School specializes in language courses for individuals and small groups of adults. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced student, whether you are learning for personal or professional reasons, we will organize and run the best language course for you in the heart of Venice. Our lessons are engaging and practical: relying on the communicative method, we will get you to practice your Italian while learning new structures and vocabulary. Our highly professional and extremely friendly approach maximizes learning time: improvement in your Italian will quikly show! Ti aspettiamo :)
Reviewed By roccella-ionica - San Jose, United States
I have been to the Italian Language School in Venice twice, once for 2 weeks in 2016 and again for a week in 2019. I've attended schools in the U.S., listened to tapes/CDs, and spent 2 weeks at an Italian language school in Bologna. The Italian Language School in Venice is simply the best. The director, Diego, has designed an exemplary program for small groups and individual tutoring. I've done both and in each instance improved my Italian language skills exponentially. I wanted to improve my conversational Italian, and I was able to do that after each of my sessions at the school. It is family run, casual yet structured, with skilled instructors. I will keep going back (and plan to in April 2021). If you want to improve/learn Italian, this is the best school you could choose. And, bonus: it's in Venice!! It gives you an excuse for an extended stay in what I think is the most beautiful city in the world.
9. Acquolina Cooking School
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5.0 based on 234 reviews
Marika's warm, functional kitchen equipped with the most modern technology, you will have the pleasure of preparing both typical venitian dishes and more, using the fresh herbs grown in the garden of the beautiful old venitian villa: villa inespartecipate actively in the preparation of ravioli, tagliatelle, risotti, local specialty of fish and meat, vegetables and dessert.each class last for 4 hours and finished with tasting of the menu prepared. Maximum 10. Folder with recipes is given to each partecipant
Reviewed By mdmockbee - Potenza, Italy
My mom and I took two of Marika’s cooking experiences in her beautiful open kitchen, where culture meets food and tingles all your senses, tastes and textures. Her catering, events and cooking experience company is called Acquolina. In Italian one of my favourite phrases is ‘acquolina in bocca,’ meaning mouth-watering, and that is exactly the flavors and smells that ensue when spending time in Marika’s Kitchen. Diving into the rhythm of cooking, we experienced creating a Michelin star quality meal in a matter of 4 hours. The first meal we made was Milanese, Ossobuco with Saffron Risotto. Marika said that it is one of the only dishes in Italy where the primo and the secondo come together. She moves fast, giving us lessons in cooking, technique and her personal connection to the cuisine. I had never made risotto, used saffron, nor had any idea what ossobuco was. Marika said it’s a perfect winter Milanese dish. The technique involved toasting rice in wine and constant stirring. As Chef Marika said, ‘that is why you let the guest wait for the risotto, and not the risotto for the guests.’ For the second meal we cooked was an explosion of pasta varieties. More than the technique, Marika explained how pasta and Italian cuisine are rooted in season, regionally and in the home. Together we prepared two fillings for ravioli: asparagus with leek and Spinach with ricotta. The first sauce to accompany the asparagus and leek ravioli was made with butter sage and Parmesan with asparagus tops. The second sauce was a salsa simplice with little tomatoes, olive oil and garlic. We also made a basil pesto with spinach infused tagliatelle. And finally pillow-like potato gnocchi. It was all overwhelming in a way that we couldn’t even believe the quantity of different types of pasta we had made. The technique of which takes consistency in practice and a lifetime, which we realised very quickly as Marika effortlessly showed, and as my mother and I fumbled our way through laughing. Even the shapes and how you make each pasta is founded in different locales of Italian cooking. Marika’s stories of cooking with her grandmother when she was a young girl in Milan, and her connection to the rich agriculture that comes from the regions of her grandfather in Puglia further South came together as we rhythmically prepared our meal together. This day was just my mother, myself, Tonia Marika’s sous chef and Marika. At the end, my mother and I ate together enough pasta for ten, and the meal was one that no restaurant in Venice could compare.
10. The Workshop of Paolo Brandolisio
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5.0 based on 9 reviews
Paul, after having been a student of maestro Giuseppe Carli, continues the business of construction of oars and oarlocks, with the same passion of the teacher is committed to giving forms more and more functional, elegant and aesthetic to the traditional oars and oarlocks, in addition to this Paul builds Greenland paddles for kayaks, and other objects in precious woods, such as bracelets, necklaces ... and more. His workshop and a place for a stopover while artisan, is fascinating for its history and structure hce recalls over the past Venice's also the essence of being a craftsman
