Relentless statistics claim that annually Venice receives almost 20 million tourists! And the historic part of the city is quite tiny. Just imagine what crowds of people stroll daily through the narrow streets of Italy's pearl...

To avoid an unpleasant aftertaste from getting acquainted with one of the most beautiful and original places on Earth, avoid organized tours, it's better instead to download the Venice audio guide to your iPhone or Android. With it, you can independently plan your walking route around the city, learning many interesting things along the way! And not just about history – we'll tell you about its heroes, legends, symbols... For example, the short track about gondolas at the top of this page is only a hundredth of what you can learn!

Venice Audio Guide in Russian prepared by a professional Italy guide, narrator, and sound engineer. This is a truly quality product that will let you perfectly feel the atmosphere of this amazing city!

Want to hear a funny story? One of our users first listened to all the audio guides to Venice and only after that bought tickets to Italy :) Of course, we're very pleased that we can inspire new travels like that! But honestly, these mobile guides were conceived for something a bit different...

The main advantage of audio guides for smartphones is their compactness, accessibility, and multimedia nature. Just imagine: unlike traditional paper guidebooks, they take up no extra weight in your luggage, cost several times less, and provide much more information – texts, photos, audio, and GPS navigation... By downloading the Ever.Travel mobile app, inside you'll find several routes for independent walks around Venice, including audio stories. Download all of them or only those that seem most interesting to you.

You can listen to the first, overview tour of the city on water anywhere: sipping coffee in St Mark's Square, riding a gondola along the Grand Canal, or just planning a trip to Italy. But we must warn you: our story about landmarks, symbols, and legends won't pass without a trace – you'll fall in love with this city once and for all!

Story author: private guide to Italy Elizaveta Shurygina

Duration – 25 minutes

Download the Venice audio guide for free right now!

And although Piazza San Marco can be walked in just a couple of minutes, the landmarks on it are so numerous that we could talk about them for hours! But let's not overdo it, turn on our audio guide and listen only to the most interesting stories about the buildings that make up the architectural ensemble of one of the world's most beautiful squares.

Story author: private guide to Italy Elizaveta Shurygina

Duration – 33 minutes

Audio guide cost: 100 piastres (about $1)

The tour route includes:

During this tour we'll tell you the story of the amazing life and martyrdomic demise of St Mark and the fantastic delivery of his relics from Alexandria. We'll tell you about the centuries-long construction of the cathedral, then carefully examine its facade, and then go inside the basilica. There we'll become acquainted with its famous mosaics, chapels, and altar.

By the way, audio guide by Ever.Travel will cost you several times less than the official St Mark's Basilica audio guide.

Story author: private guide to Italy Elizaveta Shurygina

Duration – 23 minutes

Audio guide cost: 100 piastres (about $1)

During a walk through Riva degli Schiavoni waterfront you'll learn about the basilicas of San Giorgio Maggiore and Santa Maria della Salute visible from thereSalute, the history of their construction and amazing artifacts and works of art, which can be found in them.

This audio guide convenient to listen from St Mark's Square, but we strongly advise you to comvel to San Giorgio Maggiore island and climb the cathedral bell tower. From there opens a simply stunning view of Venice!

Story author: private guide to Italy Elizaveta Shurygina

Duration – 21 minute

Audio guide cost: 100 piastres (about $1)

Another story that you can play regardless of where you are. We'll give you tips on where to go after you've seen the most famous Venice landmarks. In other districts of the city no less beautiful and interesting. Learn more, by downloading the mobile app Ever.Travel.

Story author: private guide to Italy Elizaveta Shurygina

Duration – 24 minutes

Audio guide cost: 100 piastres (about $1)

We'll tell you about:

This audio guide in the collection Ever.Travel – special. As our users admit, it's interesting to listen to even at home on the couch – it conveys the atmosphere of Venice so sensitively...

To protect you from possible disappointments, we want to warn that in this tour we won't talk about Venice's landmarks, but will show its amazing spirit and image as Joseph Brodsky saw it.

Creating the Venice tour by Brodsky used: I.A. Brodsky's essay "Watermark" (Fundamenta degli Incurabili) and "One and a Half Cats", memoirs by Yu.Lepsky, L.Stern, P.Vail.

Story author: Alina Kovalevich

Duration – 35 minutes

Audio guide cost: 100 piastres (about $1)

What if you came to Italy not only for Venice, but are also planning to visit other cities? Then we recommend opening the Ever.Travel mobile app again to download audio guides to Rome and an audio tour of the Duomo in Milan.

And if you still have any questions, read the article, where we explain in detail how to use Ever.Travel audio guides.

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