Rick Steves Pocket Venice truly is a tour guide in your pocket.
This colorful, compact guidebook includes Rick's advice for prioritizing your time, whether you're spending 1 or 7 days in Venice. Everything a busy traveler needs is easy to access: a neighborhood overview, city walks and tours, sights, handy food and accommodations charts, an appendix packed with information on trip planning and practicalities, and a fold-out city map.
Rick Steves Pocket Venice includes the following walks and tours:
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St. Mark's Square Tour
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St. Mark's Basilica Tour
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Doge's Palace Tour
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Frari Church Tour
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St. Mark's to Rialto Walk
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Rialto to Frari Church Walk
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St. Mark's to San Zaccaria Walk
Gene Openshaw is a writer, composer, tour guide, and lecturer on art and history. Specializing in writing walking tours of Europe's cultural sights, Gene has coauthored 10 of Rick's books and contributes to Rick's public television series. As a composer, Gene has written a full-length opera (Matter), a violin sonata, and dozens of songs. He lives near Seattle with his daughter, and roots for the Mariners in good times and bad.