Ca' Dario: the cursed palace of Venice At first glance you might think you are simply looking at an elegant Renaissance palace. But if you stop for a few moments to listen to the silence of the water and the breath of the lagoon, you may perceive that this place holds a much deeper history. Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Campo dei Mori and the Merchant's Curse The name “Campo dei Mori” can be misleading. It does not refer to African populations, as is often thought, but to a family of wealthy Eastern merchants who came to Venice in the Middle Ages. They were three brothers from... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Campo San Barnaba – Between ancient silences, Venetian spirits and cinema The camp is named after the Church of St. Barnabas you see in front of you. Its origins date back to the ninth century, when Venice was still building its own identity between water, trade and maritime power. Over the centuries the church was ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Campo San Giacomo dell’Orio : the field of the hidden soul of Venice This space is called Campo San Giacomo dell’Orio and is located in the Santa Croce district. It is one of the oldest fields in the city and, at the same time, one of the liveliest, where everyday Venice continues to flow with the slow rhythm of ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Campo Santa Margherita : the authentic breath of Venice between history, souls and mysteries Imagine this place many centuries ago. Where you now see a large open square, in the Middle Ages there were small canals and separate islets. Between the ninth and twelfth centuries the Venetians decided to bury those rii to create a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Campo Santa Maria Formosa and the ghost of the bride This square was in fact born from the union of small medieval spaces that, over time, have transformed into a single field. In Venice the squares are called just that, “campi”, because originally they were ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Church of San Giorgio dei Greci and the ghost of the Orthodox monk To understand the soul of this place you have to go back to 1453, the year Constantinople fell under the Ottoman Empire. Many Greeks fled to the West and Venice, a city of trade and encounters between cultures, became one of the main ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Corte del Milion – Home, spirit and legends of Marco Polo. You are in one of the quietest and most mysterious corners of Venice, hidden between narrow alleys and sudden passages. This is the Court of the Million, a small courtyard that at first glance might seem like one of the many collected spaces in the city. Yet here lurks one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of Trips and ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Fondamenta de la Misericordia and the figure dressed in a dark cloak and a lit lantern. If you look at the houses overlooking the water, you will notice ancient facades, marked by salt and history. Many of these dwellings date back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when Venice was one of the richest powers in the Mediterranean. The doors you see at water level were not decorative entrances ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The Casino of Spirits – “The Devil’s House” in Venice. To understand this place you have to imagine the Venice of the sixteenth century. Not the crowded city you know today, but a quieter city, made up of private gardens, noble palaces and secluded corners where the most influential Venetians would retire to ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The Breath of the Ghetto: meditation of peace between memory and spirit. The stones around you listened to voices, prayers, philosophical arguments, children's laughter and whispers in the night. Choose a quiet spot on the field. You can sit on a bench or stand, with your feet firmly on the ground. Bring attention to the breath and ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The Venice Ghetto: a journey through history, memory and spirit. You are in the heart of the Ghetto of Venice, in the Cannaregio district, one of the places full of memory, history and spiritual energy of the entire city. Stop for a moment, breathe slowly and observe ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The Bridge of Sighs and the ghosts of the prisoners of Venice. This bridge connects the Doge's Palace to the ancient New Prisons and crosses the Rio di Palazzo, one of the canals that run alongside the political heart of the Serenissima. It was built in 1600 by the architect Antonio Contino, nephew of Antonio da Ponte, the same architect who designed the famous Rialto Bridge. Looking at its structure you may notice the ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Accademia Bridge and the spirit of the nineteenth-century painter. From here your gaze can embrace one of the most iconic views of the lagoon : in front of you opens the perspective that leads to the majestic Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, while behind you is the Academies district, the heart of ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The Silence of Water – Venetian meditation on the Accademia Bridge. Bring attention to your feet resting on the bridge wood. Feel the surface beneath you, alive, warm, slightly vibrant. This bridge connects two banks of the city, but symbolically it also connects two parts of you: the mind and the heart. Take a slow, deep breath and... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Acqua Alta library and guardian cats. When you cross the threshold of this place, the feeling is to enter a small universe suspended between water, paper and memory. The smell of ancient books blends with the brackish lagoon, creating an atmosphere that many visitors describe as deeply ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Fortuny Palace and the spirit of the caretaker. In 1898 something happened that changed the fate of the palace forever. Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, a Spanish artist born in Granada but deeply in love with Venice, moved here. Fortuny wasn't just a painter. He was a Renaissance spirit, an inventor, a set designer, a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Palazzo Grimani – The sound of Giovanni Grimani’s footsteps. This palace was born in the sixteenth century and belonged to the powerful Grimani family, one of the most influential of the Serenissima. To transform it into the extraordinary place that you can visit today was Giovanni Grimani, Patriarch of Aquileia, a cultured, refined and deeply ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Bridge of the Constitution - An arc of light between past and future. The bridge was inaugurated in 2008 and designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, known throughout the world for its elegant and dynamic structures, often inspired by natural forms and the movement of the human body. His idea was to create a bridge that seemed light, almost suspended above the water, able to dialogue with ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Bridge of Spires - The Ghost Bridge. This bridge is one of the very few in Venice decorated with spires. If you look closely, you will notice small white stone cusps rising into the sky. They seem almost like antennas, thin tips that connect the earth to the air, matter to the spirit. It is precisely from these elegant decorations that the bridge ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Rio de la Tetta – Venice’s secret canal between eros, history and mystery. You are in one of the most curious and little known places in Venice. A small canal hidden in the San Polo district, far from the buzz of the great tourist flows. This is Rio della Tetta, a tiny corner of the city that contains a surprising story, made of freedom, human desire and mystery ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Scala Contarini del Bovolo – The secret lover and the energy spiral. Its name comes from the Venetian term bovolo, which means snail. Just look up to see why: in front of you wraps an extraordinary spiral staircase, an elegant and mysterious tower that seems to rise to the sky like a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Squero di San Trovaso – Patient hands transform wood into Gondolas. You are in front of one of the most authentic and fascinating places in Venice: the Squero di San Trovaso, one of the last shipyards where gondolas are still built and repaired today. Here time seems to slow down ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!