Full Day Venetian Villas Tour with Visit to Villa Pisani and Villa Foscarini Rossi Shoes Museum from Dolo

Overview

Discover beautiful Venetian villas along the impressive Brenta Riviera, just a few kilometres from Venice.

This is a small-group tour fully escorted that will allow you to visit 2 of the most beautiful Venetian villas built outside the lagoon during the Venetian Golden Age: Villa Pisani and Villa Foscarini Rossi.

The tour departs directly from Dolo railway station, that can be easily reached by local train from Venice or Padua (approx. 30 minutes).

Board on a private minibus and listen to your guide heading to the first site of the tour: the ancient Villa Pisani, an amazing villa also known as "The little Versailles".

Enter to the Villa and enjoy a guided visit of the building. The tour includes also the visit to the garden, with its beautiful fountains and famous maze.

After that you will be taken to a typical restaurant where you will taste the local cuisine (drinks not included).

In the afternoon enjoy a visit to the Rossimoda Shoes Museum located inside the beautiful Villa Foscarini Rossi. The Villa hosts 2 permanent collections of more than 1700 designed shoes (from the 50s) created by Rossimoda for the main fashion brands like Fendi, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Emilio Pucci, Givenchy, Celine and Kenzo. See also shoes artworks of Andy Warhol, Allen Jones and Anselmo Anselmi.

The tours ends with a promenade along Brenta river in Dolo, where you can see the ancient little village's mill before to board your transfer back to Dolo railway station.

Venice - Veneto and Venice, Italy