Tours

Target Motivation will offer you the opportunity of discovering Venice in a different and authentic way. All our tours will guide you through the mysteries, curiosities, particularities of this city, letting you living Venice like a true Venetian.

Here some examples of tours and excursions:

1. Fashion in Venice YESTERDAY: among fragrances and fabrics and aperitif with the countess
   You will visit Palazzo Mocenigo at San Stae, former headquarters of the Center for Textile and Costume Studies, populated by mannequins wearing precious clothes and antique accessories, that expanded its offer to visitors with the new museum paths dedicated to Perfume, highlighting the city’s fundamental role in the origins of this aesthetic, cosmetic and entrepreneurial tradition.
   The guided tour continues into a very famous weaving factory, where you can admire the process through which a fine cloth is created. During our itinerary, you can visit a 16th-century Venetian building, overlooking the magnificent Canalgrande landscape and have an aperitif with the countess.
2. Fishing in Venice
   Tour with a fishing boat and fishers to discover the Lagoon of Venice and the art of fishing.
   By boarding a fishing boat, a fisherman will bring the group to discover the lagoon, fishing grounds, explaining the ancient techniques still in use and the important rules that govern this activity, still alive among the island families.
3. Venice & The Music: a centenary love story
   Once Venice was considered the city of music: people played everywhere and in every occasion, in traditional places such as theaters and churches, in less common places such as private buildings and hospitals. The musical and theatrical culture was widespread among the Venetian population. Some of the most famous musicians born in Venice were Giovanni Legrenzi, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Vivaldi, Baldassarre Galuppi, Buranello, Benedetto Marcello and others. Venice becomes an indispensable destination for anyone who is passionate and interested in music, whether it is sacred or popular.
   Some stops of the tour: Goldoni Theatre, Benedetto Marcello Conservatory, La Fenice Theatre.
4. Venetian Legends
   Venice is a wonderful place for strange and mysterious traditions, places and characters from the past. This is an unusual walk through the Venetian districts to discover the “darkest” side of the Venetian tradition. In its long history, the city hides plenty of legends, traditions and hidden facts that this tour allows you to discover: ghost stories, mysterious homicides, quarrels between angels and demons develop in an evocative way in your imagination, leaving you in the middle of a enchanting fairy tale! This walking tour of Venice features an itinerary that will take you on a journey through the hidden Venice.
5. Venice through the Cinema places
   For its incomparable beauty and natural sceneries that it offers, Venice has always constituted a sough after and privileged scenography for cinematographers from all over Italy that have celebrated it in all seasons and through films of different genres and insights, amongst common postcard places and romantic decadence of psychodrama… For the passionately fond of the seventh art, but not only, a discovery of Venice through cinema places could turn out to be an exhilarating as much as a never-ending adventure whose stages risk to be endless…
   For this reason, we propose to you a journey to do in one day, on the discovery of one eternal Venice, a times decadent or surreal.
6. Bacari Tour
   This is a nice and relaxing walking tour accompanied by our escort through Venice, discovering the real Venetian atmosphere by stopping in different “Bacari” (historical Venetian Wine bars) where you will mix with the other Venetians for a glass of wine and some “chicheti” (Venetian appetizers).