Venezia Trip Overview
Venice highlights tour and visit to the Palazzo Ducale!
The guided visit starts with the walking tour of the highlights of Piazza San Marco and proceeds until Rialto bridge, admiring the main monuments of Venice as Campo Santa Maria Formosa and Basilica of S. Giovanni and Paolo.
Later, the guide will escort inside the imposing Palazzo Ducale where you’ll admire the marvelous halls of power, the Golden Staircase and the famous artworks of Tiepolo. You’ll cross the Bridge of Sighs to reach the darks Venetian prisons where only Casanova managed to escape!
It’s included also the skip the line ticket valid to visit by yourself the palaces around Piazza San Marco (Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana).
Enjoy the audioguide with digital map to discover the 5 districts of Venice and listen to the automatic audio narration of the city’s highlights, with more than 200 points of interest!
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Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Venezia, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Venice highlights tour and visit to the Palazzo Ducale!
The guided visit starts with the walking tour of the highlights of Piazza San Marco and proceeds until Rialto bridge, admiring the main monuments of Venice as Campo Santa Maria Formosa and Basilica of S. Giovanni and Paolo.
Later, the guide will escort inside the imposing Palazzo Ducale where you’ll admire the marvelous halls of power, the Golden Staircase and the famous artworks of Tiepolo. You’ll cross the Bridge of Sighs to reach the darks Venetian prisons where only Casanova managed to escape!
It’s included also the skip the line ticket valid to visit by yourself the palaces around Piazza San Marco (Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana).
Enjoy the audioguide with digital map to discover the 5 districts of Venice and listen to the automatic audio narration of the city’s highlights, with more than 200 points of interest!
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
Here is the route: Piazza San Marco – Origin, history, and description of the main monuments: Basilica San Marco, Palazzo Ducale, Bell Tower, Clock Tower and Procuratie, Santa Maria Formosa – History and anecdotes relating to this wonderful and characteristic square. Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo – The “Pantheon” of Venice, the Great School of Charity, the captains of fortune. Marco Polo’s House and Malibran Theatre – Anecdotes and past and recent history cross each other in this beautiful corner of Venice. Return to San Marco through the Mercerie, a vital connection between Rialto and San Marco and the city’s main shopping street
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Pass By: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy
Return to San Marco through the Mercerie, a vital connection between Rialto and San Marco and the city’s main shopping street
Stop At: Doge’s Palace, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124 Venice Italy
You will visit the Palazzo Ducale, which has been for centuries the seat of the Venetian political power. In his splendid rooms, plastered and immersed in hundreds of paintings masterpieces, the duke and his council controlled the fate of a thousand-year old republic. You’ll live it together with a qualified and experienced guide who will show you the halls of power, plunging you into a very special historical context: the European Middle Ages and the immediate-following centuries. You’ll be surprised at the rich details of the gold staircase, at the realism of the scenes depicted by many artists who have decorated this building. You will relive the anguish of the prisoners crossing the famous Bridge of Sighs, and enter the Venetian prisons, famous for hosting Giacomo Casanova. The ticket for the palace is included in the tour price, and it will allow you to enter without waiting.
After the visit of the Doge’s Palace you will have the opportunity to visit a Glass Factory close to Saint Mark’s Square where you can see a Glass Craftsman at work. Please note this is a free of charge optional tour of approximately 20 minutes and it is not a part of the tour.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Pass By: Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco San Marco 52, 30124 Venice Italy
You may visit the other magnificent palaces around St. Mark’s Square with the same ticket by yourself (Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana). You will discover the way of life for the Venetians with paintings, libraries, coinage, and sculpture. You can also visit the area built by Napoleon and the rooms restored for Sissi, the Empress of Austria.
Pass By: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy
Enjoy the Audio guide with digital map to discover the 5 districts of Venice with their best attractions and squares, day or night, on a self-guided tour. Listen to the automatic audio narration of the city’s highlights, with more than 200 points of interest!
