Honeymoon Ideas
Activities Ideas to enrich your Honeymoon stay in Venice
Here are our proposals for your interesting Entertainment in Venice.
Tour of the handcrafts business in the S. Croce and S. Polo or Castle districts
The tour includes a visit to some of the shops that best represent the typical reality of Venetian handcraft.
During the tour, craftsmen will give a demonstration of how they work, offering detailed explanations of the history, techniques, and peculiarities of their artistic products.
The itinerary proposes a visit to workshops where masks are made and where to admire “lavorazione a lume” (glass lampworking), artistic paper making, iron and woodworking, jeweler’s shops, bookbinderies, and others.
The number of shops visited during the tour will depend on the length of the single demonstration.
Time:3 h.
Languages spoken: English and Italian, other languages by request.
Groups: 6/8 people at the most
Cichetto
“Cichetto” is a Venetian ritual consisting of rissoles, “folpeti”, “baccalà” etc. tasted before lunch or dinner, enhanced by a good glass of wine.
Time: 1 – 1 ½ h
Languages spoken: English and Italian, other languages by request.
Groups: 6/8 people at the most
Wine and typical products tasting
Sample a variety of the most important local products in a refined gallery of typical Italian products: cheeses, cold pork products, wines, and many other delicacies.
As an alternative, you can stop off at a typical Venetian wine shop where you will taste a selection of the best local and national wines.
Time: 1 – 1 ½ h
Languages spoken: English and Italian, other languages by request.
Groups: 6/8 people at the most
Tea, coffee and chocolate tasting
Guided tasting of:
- tea according to the Russians,
- Moroccan and traditional English “five o’clock tea” customs;
- some of the finest Arabic coffees roasted immediately; some chocolate specialties
Time: 3 h
Languages spoken: English and Italian, other languages by request.
Groups: 4/6 people at the most
Mini-conferences on the production, decoration and history of Venetian mask
- How an authentic Venetian mask is produced and decorated
- History of the mask: In Venice in everyday life, at Carnival time, at the theatre (Commedia dell’Arte)
To maintain the public’s attention during the entire length of the exhibition, enlargements of details taken from ancient paintings and prints are used, showing the masks in their context, as if they were snapshots of different typical situations.
Furthermore, participants can try on the masks: “bauta”, "volto" and three-cornered, i.e. the most traditional costume, and are explained every single part of the marks.
Time: 1 – 1 ½ h
Languages spoken: English, French, Italian
Groups: 30 people at the most
Workshop on the making of a papier mache mask
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Each participant is given the plaster cast of a typical Venetian mask.
The work consists of filling this cast with several layers of special paper towels wet beforehand and spread with glue.
When the work is completed, the cast is left to dry and the masks are given back only after a few hours (the groups that want to decorate the masks they have made will be unable to do so the same day).
The eyes of the unfinished masks are to be cut out and the edges cut away, an operation that the artisan “mascherer” carries out before the masks are given back so that no participant needs to use any sharp instrument.
The masks, finished and immediately ready to be worn, are then returned to the participants.
Time required: 4 h. (including the theoretical part)
Languages spoken: English, French, Italian
Maximum number of participants: 4
Workshop on the decoration of a papier mache mask
Each participant can choose from a vast array of white models among those exhibited by the handicraft shop where the course is held.
The items are ancient Carnival masks of Venice’s daily life, theatre (Commedia dell’Arte) or fashionable, fancy masks.
Each person can choose from different practical work possibilities: two alternative colouring techniques, proposed by the artist, belonging to traditional masks or, for those who want to freely express their creative capacities, fantasy decorations with 5 different finishing techniques.
When the work is finished, each participant can take home his/her own mask which will be unique and different to all the others and will be professionally finished.
Time required: 4 h. (including the theoretical part)
Languages spoken: English, French, Italian
Maximum number of participants: 4
N.B.: For those wanting to make and decorate their own masksthey can do so by combining the two courses described above. For technical reasons it would be better to let two days go by between one session and the other, but, if need be, one day could be sufficient.
Workshop display with the “mascherer” of the art of mask making and “commedia dell’arte” theatre.
Meeting/performance with the actor and mask-maker who will illustrate all the features of “Commedia dell’Arte” characters and reveal the secrets of ancient leather mask-making.
Time required: 3 h
Languages spoken: English, Italian
Maximum number of participants: 25
Guided tour of a Venetian Palace on the Grand Canal + dinner
A guided tour is offered to the palace’s guests in a magnificent Venetian palace, the private residence of a Venetian Countess, St Mark’s area.
At the end of the tour, dinner is prepared and served at table by the Countess’s very own cook.
Time required: 4 h (7 pm – 11 pm)
Languages spoken: English, French, Italian
Maximum number of participants: 6
Watercolour en plein air
You can be shown around Venice by a local artist and, together, choose a subject to paint with the watercolour technique. Materials and equipment supplied by the artist.
Time required: 4/6 h
Maximum number of participants: 4
Wellness Centre
Our clients are offered the opportunity to take a few hours of utter relaxation in the most complete wellness center in the city.
The following are some of the treatments we can book for you:
TOTAL BODY RELAXATION MASSAGE(time 50’)
This is a complete body massage (face and scalp massage by request). Relaxes the body, increasing mobility, favoring a sense of well-being, and contributing to a healthy mind in a healthy body.
EMOTIONAL AESTHETICS (time 120’)
Using a beneficial psychophysical action, the state of well-being desired can be achieved, due to the contemporaneous involvement of all the person’s senses.
Some examples:
- chocolate face & body treatment
- apple face & body treatment
- milk and honey body treatment
- white moss body treatment
- spices body treatment
All treatments include body scrub, pack, 30-minute massage, and Turkish bath.
The ideal solution to achieve a complete state of well-being is to awaken hidden energy and help to regain one’s inner equilibrium.
REGAL FOOT TREATMENT (time from 30’ to 90’)
This is a truly regal pedicure, offering a sense of lightness and beauty to the feet, and consists of a Camargue salt bath, foot exfoliation with volcanic pumice stone, a natural foot-pack with clay and seaweed, and, lastly, a massage on the reflexological areas of the feet.
Special program for couples
All the programmes can be carried out in the romantic atmosphere of one of the Centre’s massage parlours, booked exclusively for the couple.
The cost of the treatments is double the price of single treatments.
For each of the treatments, there is the possibility to make use of the Turkish bath free of charge.
