Venezia Trip Overview
This tour includes a walking tour around Venice and the Doge’s Palace.
A walk through the most characteristic and important places for the history of Venice through the millennium of life of the Serenissima Republic, recalling the past full of charm of this unique city. An essential tour to understand Venice!!
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes
Starts: Venezia, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Venezia, Veneto, Italy
This tour includes a walking tour around Venice and the Doge’s Palace.
A walk through the most characteristic and important places for the history of Venice through the millennium of life of the Serenissima Republic, recalling the past full of charm of this unique city. An essential tour to understand Venice!!
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
Description origins, history and description of the main monuments from outside: Basilica San Marco, Palazzo Ducale, Bell Tower, Clock Tower and Procuratie.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Castello, Venice Italy
History and anecdotes related to this wonderful and characteristic square
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Campo Santissimi Giovanni e Paolo, Campo Giovanni e Paolo Santissimi, 30122 Venice Italy
The “Doge’s Pantheon”, the Great School of Charity, the Captains of Fortune
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Casa di Marco Polo, Calle Scaleta, 30121 Venice Italy
Near Malibran Theatre. Anecdotes, past and recent history cross each other in this beautiful corner of Venice
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Doge’s Palace, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124 Venice Italy
This palazzo represented for centuries the seat of the Venetian political power. In his splendid rooms, plastered and immersed in hundreds of masterpieces of painting, the Duke and his Council controlled the fate of a thousand-year history republic. The halls of power, plunging visitors in a very particular historical context: the European Middle Ages and the immediately following centuries. Be surprised of the rich details of the gold staircase, of the realism of the scenes depicted by many artists who have decorated this building, relive the anguish of the prisoners crossing the famous Bridge of Sighs, and entering the Venetian prisons, famous for hosting Giacomo Casanova.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
