The Trove Edit: a free self-guided walking tour of Venice
- 8 stops
- 1.8 km
- about 2 hours
- Free
8 stops through Venice, from Piazza San Marco to The Grand Canal. Walk at your own pace — each story plays as you arrive, told in a warm narrator's voice. The full audio lives in the app; here's where the walk takes you.
The route, stop by stop
Piazza San Marco
The only square Venice calls a piazza — and Napoleon called it the finest drawing room in Europe.
St Mark's Basilica
A church built like a treasure chest — and filled, quite literally, with stolen treasure.
Doge's Palace & the Bridge of Sighs
The seat of a thousand-year republic — and the bridge that carried the condemned to their cells.
San Zaccaria
A few steps off the tourist trail, a free church hiding a Bellini masterpiece — and a crypt full of water and dead doges.
Scala Contarini del Bovolo
Hidden in a maze of alleys, a spiral staircase so beautiful a noble family built it just to show off.
Rialto Bridge & Market
For a thousand years, the beating commercial heart of Venice — where the money, the gossip and the fish all changed hands.
The Wells & the Wooden City
Look at the stone wellhead in the middle of the square — and learn the impossible secret of how Venice drinks, and stands.
The Grand Canal
Venice's only real street — three miles of water, lined with the front doors of a vanished empire.
Good to know
It's free. This walk is Trove's free tour of Venice — no unlock, no subscription. Open Trove in your browser, sign in, and start at Piazza San Marco.
Go at your own pace. Pause to linger, double back, or break for lunch — the walk waits and remembers where you stopped. Expect about 2 hours at a comfortable pace over about 1.8 km, roughly 32 minutes of it walking between stops.
Nothing to install. Trove runs in the browser on your phone. Save the walk before you head out and it keeps playing as you move from stop to stop.
Ready when you are
Put your headphones in at Piazza San Marco and press play — Venice does the rest.
Also on Trove
Venice walking tours · Florence walking tours · Rome walking tours