Venice

Visit Pizzeria L’Angelo: Takeaway pizzeria known for a useful range of vegan pizzas and toppings in central Venice. No seating and not fully vegan.

Visit Strazzaria: A small contemporary pizzeria with clearly available vegan choices.

Visit Pata Chic: A sit-down option with a separate vegan menu, including house-made gnocchi and vegetable-led Venetian plates. Reserve for an outdoor table on the campo.

Visit Ristorante Mario alla Fava: A traditional restaurant with vegan choices. Tell staff when ordering because the venue is not fully vegan.

Visit Snack Bar Castello: Clearly labelled vegan pasta, minestrone and adaptable pizza near the Arsenale. A practical choice when exploring eastern Castello.

Visit Millevoglie 2.0: Quick takeaway with vegan calzone, pizza and occasional dairy-free ice cream. Best treated as a convenient snack rather than a destination meal.

Visit Super ZaZa — comics & vegan bar: A fully vegan sandwich, cake and coffee bar inside an independent comics and games shop near Piazzale Roma.

Visit Ital India: Indian restaurant with a dedicated vegetarian menu and several dishes that can be prepared vegan, including curries, dal, pakora and roti. Tell staff you are vegan when ordering.

Visit Laguna — Burano: A useful island stop for vegan cicchetti topped with artichoke, mushroom, asparagus and vegetables. Combine it with Burano’s quieter back lanes.

Visit Gelatoteca Suso — Cannaregio: The quieter Suso branch has clearly labeled vegan pistachio, hazelnut, dark chocolate and fruit flavors plus vegan cones.

Visit Gelato Gallonetto dal 1985: Friendly artisanal shop with vegan cones and dairy-free fruit flavors. Ask about the seasonal vegan special.

Visit La Mela Verde: Canal-side artisan gelateria with clearly labelled vegan fruit sorbets and a creamy dark-chocolate option. Flavors rotate.

Explore Palazzo Grassi: A restored eighteenth-century palazzo hosting contemporary-art exhibitions from the Pinault Collection.

Visit Peggy Guggenheim Collection: Modern art inhabits an unfinished Grand Canal palace at domestic scale, offering a revealing counterpoint to Venice’s older collecting culture.

Explore Punta della Dogana: The former customs house is a contemporary-art venue at the mouth of the Grand Canal.

Explore Scuola Grande di San Rocco: Tintoretto’s cycle fills this confraternity building, one of Venice’s key sixteenth-century painting experiences.

Visit Doge’s Palace: The palace makes Venice’s unusual republic legible: ceremonial state rooms sit directly above courts, armouries and prisons. Timed tickets are available from MUVE.

Experience Fondamenta della Misericordia: A long waterside neighborhood promenade where local evening life feels less compressed than around San Marco.

Experience Giudecca waterfront: Cross the canal for working-island life, broad skyline views and a slower promenade largely outside day-trip routes.

Experience Jewish Ghetto courtyards: The world’s first legally imposed ghetto produced unusually tall buildings and layered synagogues. Visit respectfully and consider the official museum.

Visit Negozio Olivetti: Carlo Scarpa compressed modern Italian design into a tiny showroom of floating stairs, mosaics and precise material junctions beneath the Procuratie.

Visit Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo: Its exterior spiral staircase turns a constrained Gothic palace courtyard into vertical theatre. The upper arcade gives a compact rooftop reading of Venice.

Experience Rialto market at opening: Go early to understand Venice as a working lagoon market before the Rialto lanes fill with day-trippers.

Visit San Giorgio Maggiore bell tower: Palladio’s church clarifies Venice’s classical architecture, while the lift-access bell tower offers the cleanest view back across the basin to San Marco.

Experience San Pietro di Castello: A quiet former cathedral island of laundry lines, gardens and low-key neighborhood life, reached through the least touristed eastern edge of Venice.

Experience Sant’Elena & Biennale gardens: Leafy eastern Venice opens into residential streets and parkland, ideal when the central calli feel compressed.

Visit Santa Maria della Salute: Longhena’s great domed votive church was built after plague. Its octagonal geometry anchors the entrance to the Grand Canal.

Experience Squero di San Trovaso: One of the last traditional gondola boatyards. View respectfully from the opposite fondamenta to understand the craft behind Venice’s most familiar vessel.

Visit Teatro La Fenice: An opera house repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, making its gilded interior a story about Venice’s cultural resilience as much as performance.

Experience Torcello lagoon origins: Sparse Torcello preserves the lagoon settlement that predates Venice’s grandeur. The long rural path and Byzantine cathedral reset the city’s origin story.

Visit Venice and its Lagoon: The World Heritage property embraces Venice's 118-island urban fabric and the lagoon settlements that made its maritime civilization possible.

Experience Zattere sunset walk: Walk west along the Giudecca Canal as working boats, Palladian churches and evening light reveal Venice at city scale.