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Venice's Landmark Walk

Venice's Landmark Walk

Venice · Italy

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Trace Venice through a sequence of bridges, squares, churches, towers, attractions, and museums. You will move from the Ponte di Rialto to Piazza San Marco and its surrounding landmarks, then continue through prominent churches, crossings, and collections. The walk is worth taking for the changing scale of the city, from close architectural details to broad civic spaces and distinctive museum interiors.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Rialto Bridge

    Rialto Bridge

    A market bridge rebuilt in stone after centuries of collapses, arguments, and ambitious designs.

  2. San Salvador Church

    San Salvador Church

    A medieval church rebuilt by Venice, where legend, relics, rivalry, and rebuilding meet.

  3. Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo

    Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo

    A Contarini palace transformed by Venice’s famously oversized spiral staircase.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. St. Mark's Square

    St. Mark's Square

    Venice’s only true piazza, shaped by fire, empire, cafés, and centuries of rebuilding.

  6. St Mark's Campanile

    St Mark's Campanile

    Venice’s eighty-nine-metre warning tower became the city’s self-appointed master of the house.

  7. St Mark's Clocktower

    St Mark's Clocktower

    A public clock turned into a declaration of Venetian power at the entrance to the Mercerie.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.