Beyond the postcard clichés: Venice's working archipelago, from a vegetable-growing island to a cemetery island.
Adapted from a small-group experience — Voyzo runs this exclusively as a private tour for your group only. Journey through islands that each tell a different chapter of Venice's story, from Sant'Erasmo's real market-garden agriculture to a glimpse of the island where Venice's most famous are laid to rest.
Adapted from a small-group experience — Voyzo runs this exclusively as a private tour for your group only. A boat tour beyond the postcard clichés, exploring the Venetian archipelago as it was meant to be experienced, with stops including Sant'Erasmo, Venice's real market-garden island, and a view of the cemetery island where many of Venice's most famous residents are buried.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Departs by private boat from central Venice.
See where Venice genuinely grows its own vegetables.
Understand Venice as a working network of real islands, not just postcard views.
Your guide walks you back to a convenient point near your hotel.
Adapted from a small-group experience — Voyzo runs this exclusively as a private tour for your group only. Journey through islands that each tell a different chapter of Venice's story, from Sant'Erasmo's real market-garden agriculture to a glimpse of the island where Venice's most famous are laid to rest. Adapted from a small-group experience — Voyzo runs this exclusively as a private tour for your group only. A boat tour beyond the postcard clichés, exploring the Venetian archipelago as it was meant to be experienced, with stops including Sant'Erasmo, Venice's real market-garden island, and a view of the cemetery island where many of Venice's most famous residents are buried.
Adapted from a small-group experience — Voyzo runs this exclusively as a private tour for your group only. Sant'Erasmo anchors the tour's working-island half: the largest island in the entire lagoon and still Venice's genuine vegetable garden, known especially for castraure, the small violet artichoke buds harvested there each spring and prized enough to carry Slow Food recognition as one of the region's finest culinary products.
From the water, the route also passes within view of San Michele, Venice's cemetery island since a Napoleonic-era decree moved burials off the main islands in 1807 for hygiene reasons. Its cypress-lined grounds hold centuries of Venetians alongside more famous names like composer Igor Stravinsky and poet Ezra Pound — a quieter, more reflective chapter of the city's story than most boat tours ever touch.
Together, the stops trace a side of Venice built on real, ongoing daily life — farming, food, and memory — rather than the landmarks most visitors see first. Running it exclusively as a private group experience, rather than pooling strangers onto one boat, means the pace through the islands stays genuinely flexible, with time to linger at Sant'Erasmo or simply watch San Michele's cypress line slide past without anyone else's schedule to work around.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.