• Duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Explore Venice's rich history as you stroll through its most iconic landmarks and hidden gems.

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A qualified and experienced guide will escort you through the millennium of life of the Serenissima Republic, recalling the past full of charm of this unique city. An essential tour for the understanding of Venice!!

ROUTE:

• Piazza San Marco - Origins, history and description of the main monuments: Basilica San Marco, Palazzo Ducale, Bell Tower, Clock Tower and Procuratie.
• Santa Maria Formosa - History and anecdotes related 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, vital connection between Rialto and San Marco and the main street for the city shopping.
• After, you will visit the Palazzo Ducale which represented for centuries the seat of the Venetian political power. In its  splendid rooms, plastered and immersed in hundreds of masterpieces of painting, the Doge and his Council controlled the fate of a thousand-year history Republic. You’ll live it together with a guide that will show you the halls of power, plunging you in a very particular historical context: the European Middle Ages and the immediately following centuries.
  You’ll 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, you will relive the anguish of the prisoners crossing the famous Bridge of Sighs, and entering the Venetian prisons, famous for hosting Giacomo Casanova.
  
  An unforgettable tour not to be missed!

You may visit by yourself the other magnificent palaces around St. Mark’s Square under the name of Procuratie, the Museo Correr (old Royal Palace) with the same ticket! You will discover the way of life of the venetians, with paintings, library, coinage, sculpture. You will be entered in the secrets of Venice Empire, with description of Arsenale who produced the famous battleship Galea. You will visit the area built by Napoleon and the rooms restored for Sissi Empress Austria.

• Shared guided walking tour by a qualified and experienced local guide 
• “Skip the line” guided tour of Doge’s Palace 
• Entrance ticket valid to visit by yourself the palace around St. Mark’s Square (Old Royal Palace now Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale and Monumental rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana)
• Audio receiver devices are included in case of groups over 10 people

• Hotel pick-up and drop off
• Food and drinks

• Unfortunately the tour is not totally accessible for wheelchair users or people with walking disabilities.
• Comfortable shoes and appropriate clothes suggested
• For security reasons sacks, bags or knapsacks are not allowed inside the Doges’ Palace: FREE DEPOSIT INSIDE

• at the brown wooden newsstand with the yellow sign where is written "MEETING POINT", Calle Larga de l'Ascension, in front of the Post Office. Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the departure time.

• Bookings can be cancelled with no charge up to 24 hours before the service.
• The tour does not operate in case of exceptional high tide (in this case it can be postponed to the later schedule/day after otherwise it will be refunde