Venice

Venice
Venice

Canal City

Rugby Tours To Venice

Rugby Tours to Venice, the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea.

It has no roads, just canals including the Grand Canal thoroughfare.

Although no surviving historical records deal directly with the founding of Venice there is tradition and available evidence.

This subsequently has led several historians to agree that the original population of Venice consisted of refugees from Roman cities. These people came to Venice due to the successive waves of Germanic and Hun invasions.

Benneton Rugby is the professional club representing the region in the Guinness Pro14.

The side also provide several players to the national side.

Tour Information

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Our Popular Inclusions for a Rugby Tour to Venice

Attend a rugby training session with coaches from Benneton Treviso.
Watch a Guinness Pro14 fixture.
Visit the Venice National Archaeological Museum housing Egyptian, Roman, Greek and Babylonian artefacts.
Pop along to the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro a showing Renaissance antiquities plus art by Titian and Van Dyck in a 15^th century palace.
Wander around the Museo Storico Navale established in 1919 this naval and maritime museum features model ships and weapon displays.
Enjoy a Grand Canal boat trip through Venice, has to be done.
Take in the Ca’ D’Oro the iconic Venetian-Gothic palace on the Grand Canal home to the Franchetti gallery of Renaissance art.
St. Mark’s Basilica an iconic cathedral with a cavernous gilded interior, myriad mosaics & an on-site museum.
Stroll with a walking tour through the back streets of Venice visiting the places most tourists don’t see.
The San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum this just has to be seen it is divided into nine sections: Laboratory, the Ambulatory, Didactic Products, Sickness Therapies, Straightjackets, the Sick, Lodgings, Pharmacy, and Anatomical Theatre.

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Rugby Training with Benetton Rugby

Attend a very intensive training session with the coaching from Benetton Rugby.

The sessions here at Benetton Rugby are very good and a lot of teams comment on how good they are.

Of course, it’s all down to the coach giving the session. Benetton staff that do them are very good indeed and have international rugby backgrounds.

Teams take on a lot what is taught to them. This is shown in their results when they get home, such as winning their State Championships.

It’s all down to our training sessions and the coaches we provide.

National Archaeological Museum

The National Archaeological Museum is a museum located right on Piazza San Marco in Venice. It was established in 1523 by Cardinal Domenico Grimani.

This Museum has a great collection of Greek and Roman sculptures, ceramics, coins and stones dating back as far as the 1st Century B.C.

Some of the archaeological collections from the Correr Museum are also housed here.

Visitors can also view the elegant vases, impeccable ivories, portraits of Roman emperors, marbles and busts, gems and jewellery.

Numerous treasured relics of Assyro-Babylonian, Greek, Tuscan, Roman and Egyptian origins will enlighten the visitors seeking pieces of Neolithic Age.

Other highlights such as the Armenian-Venetian collection, legal texts dating back to the 17th Century can also be seen.

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Grand Canal Gondola Trip

Enjoy a Gondola boat trip along the Grand Canal and through other canals in Venice, be ready to join in and sing when your gondolier gives you the nod he’s ready.

For centuries, the gondola was a major means of transportation and the most common watercraft within Venice.

In modern times, the boats still do have a role in public transport in the city, serving as traghetti (small ferries) over the Grand Canal operated by two oarsmen.

For some years there were seven Traghetti, but by 2017, the number had been reduced to three. But now elegant crafts to cater for all the tourists instead of the various types of shabby homemade boats of the distant past.

Walking Tour

Take a guided walking tour and see the places that most tourists don’t see because they don’t know they are there.

You will be invited to walk on and off awe-inspiring, untangled and often mysterious tracks.

Venice is one of the most crowded touristic cities, but only in some specific areas.

With your pocket guide you risk spending your day in masses of people, probably losing the best what the city has to offer.

Participating on these tours will give you an opportunity to see Venice with the eyes of the insider.

The guides will give you many useful tips about local life, food and drinks. Don’t lose your chance to follow the unbeaten tracks that remain secret to the most.