Sweet Venice: traditional cafès and pastry shops walk
Sweet Venice: traditional cafès and pastry shops walk
This tour, which surely features high levels of blood sugar, will make you discover all the six "Sestrieri" (neighbourhoods) of Venice: Castello, San Marco, Dorsoduro, San Polo, Santa Croce and Cannaregio, including a panoramic view of the Giudecca island. This tour is meant for sweet tooth connoisseurs, eager to taste the traditions and the cultural richness of the city through its historical bakeries, cafés and pastry shops!Espresso coffees, delicious pastries, ice creams and tiramisù will power you across dozens of bridges we will face!We will stop in local bakeries which provided Venetians with fresh reasons to roll out of bed over centuries; in historical cafès surrounded by baroque mirrors; in shops serving the top quality of creams and pastries where gondoliers and venetian housewives flock to devour the buttery, just-baked sweetness of Venetian specialties. You will be mesmerized by traditional cream puffs and biscuits surrounded by the pleasant smell of Italian espresso.
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Your Itinerary
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Scuola Grande di San Marco
We boost energies to face our discovery walk around Venice in a traditional pastry shop serving sweet treats to Venetians since 1879 in a dramatically beatiful neighbourhood close to San Giovanni & Paolo church
15 minutesCalle degli Albanesi
We will continue our walk in the Venetian tradition with a "zaeto", a cornmeal biscuit with sultanas in a local bakery close to San Marco
15 minutesPiazza San Marco
Do you want to add some energy to your espresso? We will ask it a "corretto" ! (coffee corrected with "grappa" liquor)
15 minutesFondamenta Zattere
We will cross the Canal Grande with a short gondola ride and we will reach the Zattere in the arty Dorsoduro district. We will enjoy delicious scoops of ice cream in a "gelateria"-shop which was a favourite of Peggy Guggenheim and, more recently, of Angelina Jolie
15 minutesCampo San Barnaba
Feel like true Venetian eating the typical biscuit from the island of Burano. We will taste the original recipe in a local family bakery active since 1956
15 minutesCampo Santa Margherita
Moving towards the Santa Croce district, we cannot miss a bakery where every Venetian has been at least once in his life. In this famous place the offer is so wide it will mesmerize you! Probably a cup of Tiramisù, the most famous Italian dessert could be a good choice!
15 minutesSan Polo
Zabaione is the most tyical pastry filling in Venice, lightly alcoholic due to the Marsala liquor and extremely tasty. We will try it in a pastry shop, which has been a corner bakery since 1742, whose reputatio of krapfen (cream puffs) strudel and venetian donuts has survived many "acqua alta" (high tides)
15 minutesCampo del Ghetto
• Kosher pastry - in a traditional kosher bakery in the Jewish Ghetto.
15 minutesIncluded
- Coffee and/or Tea - Italian espresso at the first stop
- Snacks - A traditional venetian pastry at the first stop
- Gondola ferry on Canal Grande
- Licensed nature and interpretive guide and tour leader
Not Included
- Gratuities
- Breakfast - The guide will suggest you a traditional bakery product/sweet in each stop. It will be up to you to choose what you prefer!
Good to Know
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Tickets & Cancellation
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.