A city is read on foot
Arcana is a self-guided discovery trail, to follow on your own or with whoever you like. A story walks you through the architecture, the symbols and the details most people pass without noticing, and explains what you are looking at while you look at it.
How it works
Choose your visits
Pick the places that interest you from the ones on offer, and buy tickets only for those. No bundle to take all at once.
Let the story lead
Scan the QR code and the telling begins. Everything downloads, so it works offline too.
Look closer, collect points
Every visit explains why the place matters and is worth points. The more you visit, the higher your score.
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Featured routes
Secret Cannaregio
Half a day away from the crowds, from the church where Tintoretto is buried to the museum of the Ghetto, through courtyards and quaysides where Venice stops posing for photographs.
Venice · Cannaregio · 8 visits · 210 min · Easy
Members only
Hidden gems of the Serenissima
Cinque interni che gli itinerari non nominano, tutti in Dorsoduro e tutti a pochi minuti l'uno dall'altro: una delle più grandi superfici dipinte su tela del mondo in una chiesa di parrocchia, un cielo di Tiepolo sopra una confraternita, una chiesa decorata quasi tutta da un uomo solo e una di pescatori foderata d'oro.
Venice · Dorsoduro · 5 visits · 195 min · Easy
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Verona without the balcony
Four stops away from the queue at the balcony: the basilica Verona considers its own, a house-museum that closes Piazza delle Erbe, the Gothic church where everyone touches the hunchbacks by the door, and a choir of inlaid wood across the Adige.
Verona · Old town and Veronetta · 4 visits · 210 min · Easy
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Vicenza behind the scenery
Palladio left the facades; what stands behind them was put there by others. A stage with false streets that have lasted four centuries, a thorn in a Dominican church, Russian icons in a baroque palace, and two Tiepolos on the hill.
Vicenza · Old town and Monte Berico · 5 visits · 270 min · Medium
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