A private gondola along the Grand Canal with a chilled bottle of Italian Prosecco included.
Glide through a beautiful stretch of the Grand Canal surrounded by Venetian palaces before entering quieter canals, with a chilled bottle of Prosecco for your group.
A private gondola ride through the Grand Canal and quieter back canals, with a chilled bottle of Italian Prosecco included for your group as your gondolier navigates centuries of Venetian history.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your local host near St. Mark's Square, where you'll be escorted to your gondola.
Toast the ride with a bottle for your group.
See grand palaces, then slip into Venice's authentic back streets.
Your guide walks you back to a convenient point near your hotel.
Glide through a beautiful stretch of the Grand Canal surrounded by Venetian palaces before entering quieter canals, with a chilled bottle of Prosecco for your group. A private gondola ride through the Grand Canal and quieter back canals, with a chilled bottle of Italian Prosecco included for your group as your gondolier navigates centuries of Venetian history.
Every gondola on Venice's canals today is the same uniform black, a rule that traces back to a 1562 sumptuary law. Before it, wealthy Venetians had turned their private gondolas into a running competition of gilding, carved ornament, and rich fabric — so the Republic, never one to tolerate wasted money, ordered every boat painted black and ended the display outright. A handful of nobles paid fines to keep their decoration, but the black gondola became, and remains, the standard.
The Grand Canal itself traces a long reverse-S through the heart of the city, roughly 3.8 kilometers from end to end, flanked by more than 170 palaces built across six centuries of Venetian wealth. Gliding past them at water level — rather than glimpsing them from a bridge — is really the only way to appreciate how much of Venice's history is written on its waterfront facades, from Gothic tracery to Baroque stonework.
This ride pairs that view with a chilled bottle of Prosecco for your group before easing off the main waterway into Venice's quieter back canals, where the crowds thin out and the city's daily rhythm — laundry lines, small boats, narrow footbridges — comes back into focus.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.