San Lazzaro degli Armeni Tours and Tickets

There are plenty of ways to experience San Lazzaro degli Armeni. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Venice Sunset Cruise by Typical Venetian Boat
• Lido Bike Tour: With a Local on the Island of Cinema
• Tour to the Islands of San Servolo and San Lazzaro degli Armeni
• Private Cruise: Churches and Cloisters on the Islands of Venice
• Private Cruise: Mystic Venice Cruise by Night

San Lazzaro degli Armeni is an island and monastery in the Venetian Lagoon with no fixed visiting costs. However, you’ll need to pay for transportation and a guided tour. Tickets for the water bus (vaporetto) from Venice are about €7–8, while tours stopping on the island typically cost about €200–400.

You can book a tour of Lazzaro degli Armeni in two ways. Book through a private operator that offers transportation from Venice (and sometimes also visits San Servolo). Or, take a public water bus to the island and join a monastery tour, typically offered daily without reservations in the afternoons.

Not really. Technically, you can take a water bus (vaporetto) to the island, but you can’t enter the library and monastery—where anything worth seeing is located—without a guided tour. These monastery tours typically are available daily at 3:25pm for individual visitors without reservations.

San Lazzaro degli Armeni is one of the world’s most important centers of Armenian culture and is home to the order of Mekhitarists, a Roman Catholic congregation of monks. On the island, you’ll find a monastery, a library with 170,000 volumes, and artifacts like ancient manuscripts and Egyptian relics.

Not necessarily. You do need to take a guided tour to visit the library and monastery—the only attractions on the island—but it’s available to individual visitors without reservations. If you’re traveling with a group, it’s best to contact the monastery for reservations before you visit or book a private tour.