Ducal Venice Tour: Skip-the-Line Doge's Palace & Historical Walk
Description
A combined tour that allows you to discover the most important historical places and buildings of Venice. This tour is guided and divided into two parts. From a centrally located meeting point you will be lead from a professional guide through the most characteristic places around the areas of Saint Mark's Square and Castello. After this walk of two hours, you will visit the interiors of the Doge's Palace, once the seat of the power of the Republic of Venice. The guided walk inside this building lasts one hour.
Tour Options
Itinerary
meeting point and introduction
External of Marco Polo's House and the Malibran Theatre
campo S. Giovanni & Paolo and its Basilica
campo santa maria formosa and its church
Admission fees and skip the line entrance to the Doge’s Palace
At the end of the tour, keep your Doge's Palace ticket to visit on your own: Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Saint Mark's square, opposite side of the Saint Mark's Basilica.
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A moderate amount of walking is involve
- Check-in is 15 minutes prior to the booked tour start time
- Backpacks and large bags are NOT allowed inside the Doge's Palace
- This activity operates rain or shine
- Children are free until 5 years, from 6 they pay the full ticket (document required)
- On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
Reviews(23)
Very good guidance and explanations. Competent description. Addressing questions was always possible.
Our tour guide did an awesome job explaining the history of Doge's Palace and Venice. We enjoyed every minute of it and we met a lot of great people!
Dear Lisa, thank you for your kind and honest review. We are grateful you could join us for our tour. We hope to welcome you back again in the future. Sending kind regards, Team Venice Events
Amazing, informative and captivating guide, Ilaria, lead this brilliant walking tour including San Marco square, Basilica, Doge’s Palace and prisons. Book now, you will not regret!!
Gina was an excellent guide!! She was interesting and lively, clearly well educated in this field!!!
Gina was an excellent tour guide. Her tour of the city included details of Venice's history and contemporary life of a Venetian. Although St. Marks Basilica was closed, she gave us as much info and context from the outside. The tour of Doge's palace was also very thorough. Overall, her tour was fun, engaging, and interesting. We would definitely book a tour with her again.
The listing for this excursion was GUIDED tour of the palace. We were there on time at the entrance. No sign of a guide. The admissions people suggested we tour the museum on our own, which we did. Take the word GUIDED out of the title.
We visited the palace, and we also enjoyed a visit from a French speaking guide. A journey describing Casanova's escape from his cell. This was very interesting and complete, the guide was perfect!
Very nice visit in this palace perfectly maintained We made the tour without guide in 1h45. 25€ admission for adults and students 13€ I recommend
The Dog Palace is one of the most beautiful palaces in Venice. The explanations are very good and the visit path easy and well traced. You will also pass inside the Bridge of Sighs , which will give you another view of this fairly commonplace bridge. Remember to take the Venice Pass to pass faster, or at the opening to have less people.
Great place to visit. Many rooms, rooms, prisons and paintings of the time to visit. Don't get in the wrong queue because one for checkout, one for prepayment and another for groups. Entrance 20€/persons 4€/persons the entrance to the rooms to see all the paintings. There is also a large café on site that can accommodate eating and drinking.
