Ghosts and legends tour in Venice: evening walking tour!

Ghosts and legends tour in Venice

Venice by evening is fascinating and intriguing. Venture with a small group into the bygone atmosphere of the Venice mysterious. Seductive and mysterious, Venice hides mysteries, murders and ghost stories in many places in the city that you don’t know yet or that you may have passed through without knowing it!

Myths, stories and legends are widespread among the inhabitants of Venice. However, there is no better way to discover them than going to the places where these things happened and hear about them for yourself. How can we believe in the vision of a ghost, if we do not see it?

A Shared Venice Ghost Tour

This shared ghost walking tour in Venice, invites you to uncover the city’s hidden secrets and haunted locations. You will hear captivating legends while exploring the narrow passageways and seeing the very places these tales inhabit.

Leaving the well-beaten tourist routes, you will discover remarkable historical episodes in seemingly ordinary, often overlooked locations. Your footsteps will echo through an ethereal backdrop of shadows, as narrow alleys reveal unexpected appearances and the city unveils its hidden face.

Let yourself be enchanted by a thousand-year journey into the heart of the Venetian night. But be aware, any time is a good time to get lost in the darkness…

• The meeting point of this tour is in Campo San Bortolomio (Rialto).
• The tour lasts about 1 hour and 30 minutes

Haunted Venice tour

The historic centre of Venice has a haunted history stretching back thousands of years and so there are many stories and tales that have entered into legend; that’s why there are different itineraries for this evening tour!

From Calle del Diavolo and the Devil’s Bridge, to the covered Street of the Priests, your tour guide will take you in search of the ghosts of corpses that years later reappear from the lagoon!  Your guide will explain everything to you on this ghost and legends walking tour.

We do not want to spoil the surprise for you, but we will give you some small details about some Venetian legends.

Are you curious?

What we are really anxious to tell you is that even apparently innocuous and talented characters, like the good Vivaldi, actually have skeletons in the closet!

The same can be said of the sculptor Cesco Pizzigani, who created grand facades in St. Mark Square. The geniuses of art and music have always some hidden secrets and in learning about this you will see another side to venice and its inhabitants. 

Among Venice’s dark tales is that of Biasio, the butcher. Unlike other Canal Grande ferry stops named for landmarks, Riva de Biasio bears his name.

During the Serenissima Republic, his shop, renowned for sausages, hid a horrifying secret. When human remains were found in his products, Biasio confessed to murdering children. He was brutally executed in St. Mark’s Square, and his shop destroyed. Yet, his name persists, a chilling reminder at the Riva de Biasio ferry stop.