Giorgio Cini Foundation, Borges Labyrinth and Vatican chapels tour with audioguide
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Overview
Join this special combo tour of about 2 hours and 30 minutes that will allow you to visit the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Borges Labyrinth, and the Bosco of the Cini Foundation with the Vatican Chapels.The tour to the monumental complex of the Giorgio Cini Foundation will allow you to visit to the two cloisters, the Palladian refectory with the facsimile of the Wedding at Cana, the photo room and the Longhena staircase.The tour of the Borges Labyrinth instead includes a visit to the "New Manica Lunga", the ancient Benedictine dormitory transformed into a library center with a renovation by the architect Michele De Lucchi and, for the first time, a visit inside of the Borges Labyrinth: a one kilometer long path, made with 3200 boxwood plants arranged according to the Randoll Coate design and inspired by the story by Jorge Luis Borges, The garden of forking paths.
The visit to the Wood of the Foundation with the Vatican Chapels, on the other hand, allows you to visit the ten chapels designed on the occasion of the first participation of the Holy See in the Architecture Biennale: an evocative walk with an audio guide accompanied by Antonio Fresa's original music among the small churches designed by ten internationally renowned architects.
What's included
visit of about 50/60 minutes of the Bosco with the Vatican Chapels, with app or audio guide included, accompanied by our operatorvisit of about 50/60 minutes of the Bosco with the Vatican Chapels, with app or audio guide included, accompanied by our operator
What's Not included
Where
Venice, Italy
Meeting point:
The Giorgio Cini Foundation is in Venice on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Please be at the meeting point at least 10 minutes before the departure of the tour. To get here you can take the water bus (Actv 2 Line), getting off at the San Giorgio stop, which leaves from:
- San Zaccaria (approximately 3-minute trip)
- Ferrovia (approximately 45-minute trip)
- Piazzale Roma (approximately 40-minute trip)
- Tronchetto (approximately 35-minute trip)
- San Zaccaria (approximately 3-minute trip)
- Ferrovia (approximately 45-minute trip)
- Piazzale Roma (approximately 40-minute trip)
- Tronchetto (approximately 35-minute trip)
What To Expect
- Visit Giorgio Cini Foundation with an audioguide, accompanied by an operator
- Explore Borges Labyrinth and Vatican chapels
- Listen to the audio guide commentary
From
US$ 25