Unspoiled Venice? You'll find it in deserted cobblestone alleyways at dusk, on stone bridges crossing forgotten canals and in quiet neighborhoods tucked into the ancient city core.

Our Untours Local Expert (a long time Untours staff member) will help you navigate the best way to see the mainstream tourist sites if you choose. Even more useful, she can offer advice on off-the-beaten-track treasures that can't be beat:

• Enjoy a cappuccino, a warm almond brioche and early morning shopping at the bustling fish and vegetable markets.
• An exquisite evening of music by Vivaldi, surrounded on all sides by enormous paintings by Tintoretto.
• Visit the remote island of Torcello and its 11th-century cathedral with a marvelous mosaic of the Last Judgment and a view from the bell-tower to die for. Afterward, enjoy a seafood lunch with spaghetti con vongole amid a festive Sunday crowd on the sunny garden patio of the Trono d'Attila trattoria.
• The thousand-year-old shipyard of the Arsenale, mentioned in Dante's Inferno is still there, and the 'secret itinerary' at the Doge's Palace with its reminiscences of the Council of Ten and Casanova is another sight not to be missed.
• "Hearing the deafening Easter-morning peal of the bells in San Marco's Campanile, swinging only a few feet over your head is sure to make your trip complete." Ed Whitman, Venice Untour alumnus