Private Boat Tour: Churches and Cloisters of the Venetian Islands

Highlights

• Private Boat Tour
• Churches and Cloisters
• Lagoon Islands

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore

   1h

   The beautiful Palladian façade of the church invites people to visit the whole island, also called the “cypress island” as the first settlement of a Benedictine community. The island offers a breathtaking view of Venice from the top of the bell tower.

2. 2

   San Lazzaro degli Armeni

   1h

   A little jewel of the lagoon, San Lazzaro degli Armeni island, dedicated to San Lazzaro, patron of leprous, in fact the island was first a leper hospital. After few centuries of decay, at the beginning of the 18th century, a community of Armenian monks, settled here. They turned the old building into a monastery. The islands became an incredible cultural center, world famous for the collection of books and the typography opened in 1789.

3. 3

   San Francesco del Deserto

   1h

   Recognizable by a small cypress Wood, in the middle of the lagoon between Sant’Erasmo and Burano. Since 1227 it has housed a friary founded by San Francesco from Assisi on his way back from the Holy Land during the 5th crusade. It is here that the “Miracle of the birds” took place.

Before you go

Location

Island of San Giorgio Maggiore 2, 30124, Italy