Venetian Villas Cruise: 9-Hour Brenta Riviera Tour

Embark on a 9-hour charming journey along the Brenta Riviera, traversing through art and history on a Burchiello boat. The expedition begins in Venice and concludes in Padua.

Duration: 9 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • La Malcontenta - Guided tour of the Villa
  • Villa Widmann Rezzonico Foscari - Guided tour of the Villa
  • Museo Nazionale di Villa Pisani - Guided tour of the Villa
What's Included
  • Navigation from Venice San Marco to the center of Padua
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • On-board restrooms
  • Professional guide in 4 languages
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Return back to the location of departure
Additional Information
  • The transport of animals is not allowed, unless they are kept in a pet carrier
  • Luggage transport is not allowed, unless for small hand luggage, allowed upon request
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For…
Location
S. Marco-San Zaccaria "A"
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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O3236hsmartaz
Oct 30, 2025
A new perspective on Venetian Villas - I already knew the Villas of the Riviera del Brenta, but navigation allows you to admire them from a new point of view. Very welcome the explanations of the guides, who have shown great knowledge and love for their work. Very friendly cabin crew, as well as the office workers who provided us with all the information for the return and assisted us in booking lunch. Organized trip in detail, I can only recommend it!!
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Slices_g
Oct 29, 2025
Fascinating cruise on the Burchiello - The cruise with the Burchiello was a fascinating experience and rich in culture. The motorboat is modern and elegant, you sail slowly along the river, the atmosphere is relaxed and pleasant accompanied by expert guides who tell the story of the sumptuous Venetian Villas that you meet along the way. Stops are well organized even lunch is of good quality and served with courtesy.
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Roberto
Oct 23, 2025
Day to remember - Very interesting experience, very good multilingual guides, excellent quality / price for a cruise that lasts the whole day with three stops with a visit to the three most important villas of the Riviera. Good lunch, very easy return thanks to the directions and the short distance that connects Padua to Venice (about forty minutes by train).
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Juergenk948
Sep 21, 2025
Great tour with Burchiello along the Brenta from Venice to Padua. - We had a perfect day. In addition to the great weather, Olympia, our tour guide, contributed significantly to this. Highly recommended!
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Jean
Sep 6, 2025
A magnificent cruise on the Brenta - We are very happy with the cruise which was very well organized. The team was very efficient. We especially thank our guide Vanessa who gave us many very interesting explanations. She successfully led two groups of different Italian and French languages. She gave us all the directions to help us on our return trip from Padua to Venice.
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Carolinadg2957lm
Aug 31, 2025
An alternative Venetian day - A beautiful experience that offers the traveler aspects of Venetian life of the eighteenth century and enriches our naturalistic environmental knowledge. Congratulations to the professional preparation and not only of our super guides Olympia and Emma. ❤️❤️❤️
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Mernelly
Jul 21, 2025
Brenta River Cruise with the Friends of the Heart - In June together with 5 Friends we participated in the cruise departing from Venice and arriving in Padua. Beautiful experience. The boat is very comfortable, with air conditioning (given the indispensable African heat) and the bar. The crew very courteous and professional. Our guide Olympia a friendly, nice and very professional person. It 'was very interesting to hear it both during visits to the villas, both during navigation. Also excellent lunch in the partner restaurant. An experience to definitely recommend
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U9298dstizianac
Oct 6, 2025
Thought better - We were partly disappointed by this trip last Saturday, October 3 in the afternoon from Oriago to Padua the reviews and descriptions of the tour enticed us a lot and despite the cost we booked but the latter should have gone only to the only guide who worked so hard to be able to describe and inform us about what was flowing in front of us, thank goodness for her the boat flowed very slowly but really a lot. Well four languages Italian, French for a very small group, German for six people and English for two Americans.... consequence our language for most ITALIAN tourists carried out very quickly and badly because of microphone noise (sad as well as in our country as it happened for me even abroad the Italian language is always snubbed). The description of the villas we saw was time before or time after passing it was not always easy to combine the view with the description. Within the two villas visited the poor woman was unique for being always present in all the rooms of the beautiful Villa Pisani. Having requested the tour in Italian we would have liked a quiet explanation in Italian made calmly and with the possibility to ask questions or at least know that there could be the possibility of mixed tours so choose another system of visit. Applause to the guide but not to the organization. Tiziana and friends
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374natalinac
Oct 11, 2025
Disappointing outing - Experience far below expectations for the following reasons:delay of an hour and a half to departure with disruption of the entire trip. Overcrowding of the motor ship with people who have occupied without right the whole way the unnumbered place not allowing an important exchange for the vision of the landscape and villas. Visit of the last villa done at crazy speed (about 20 minutes). The only thing to save is the professionalism of the guide who tried to save the salvageable.
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Micky-ppn
Oct 2, 2025
We took the tour on Thursday 2 October. - We all sat on top deck as a family group. All was ok until lunch. On going to lunch we were told we could leave our bags on board. Ok We go to lunch and when we got back another group has taken our place!!!!! They could have stolen our luggage/ bags! Then this group( only paid for half trip and no lunch ) too our seats?! We had to recover our goods and sit separately downstairs! We DO NOT recommend this tour! Badly organized and put our private possessions at risk! We will try to get our money back as we were disgracefully treated
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).