Morning Venice Walking Tour plus Doge's Palace Guided Visit
Description
Take part in this 3-hour tour that combines a fascinating walk through the historic centre of Venice and a guided visit to the Doge’s Palace. You will pass through the gates of the thousand-year-long history of a unique city.
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Itinerary
Gem of Venice, Piazza San Marco is one of the must-sees places if you're visiting this beautiful city.
Seat of Venetian doges, hence the name Palazzo Ducale.
Marco Polo was an Italian traveller, writer, ambassador and merchant. The report of his travels in the Far East is collected in the work Il Milione, a veritable geographical encyclopaedia that brings together the essential knowledge available in Europe at the end of the 13th century about Asia.
The basilica of Saints John and Paul is one of the most impressive medieval religious buildings in Venice, together with the basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. It is considered the pantheon of Venice due to the large number of Venetian doges and other important figures who have been buried there since the 13th century. It stands in the campo of the same name, in the Castello district. In September 1922 Pope Pius XI elevated it to the dignity of a minor basilica.
Campo Santa Maria Formosa is a campo in Venice, located in the Castello district. It is one of the largest squares in the city: a total of nine calli and eleven bridges (some of which simply connect the entrances to the palaces) branch off from it. The name is due to the presence of the church of Santa Maria Formosa.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please arrive at the meeting point at least 10 minutes before the tour departure time.
- At the tour departure point you will meet a representative who will check your vouchers and give you information to do the tour.
- During the winter period (from November 1st to March 31st) the tour is BILINGUAL, so explanations are provided in two languages if the audience provenience is mixed.
- No credit or refunds will be given in the case of a no show (if you don't show up at the meeting point at the time indicated on your voucher)
- This is a collective tour, which means there might be other participants going on the tour with you.
- Please note that, due to the particular morphological structure of Venice and the logistic problems resulting from it, we cannot guarantee that the whole tour is accessible to people with limited mobility. This means that people with walking difficulties and wheelchair users could not be able to access some parts of the itinerary.
- 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(19)
Very good experience, the walking tour we did early and it was better because there were not many people in San Marcos Square.
Manuella was excellent. Interesting to have a guide from Venice. The Doge's Palace must definitely be visited
Take the morning tour to avoid the heat in the summer. It was a lot of information and I enjoyed learning about the city.
Wasn’t my favorite tour but wasn’t my least favorite. Overall, the walking tour section wasn’t too packed with information, but doge’s palace part was good.
We booked the German tour. We started with a walk through Venice, where we saw some sights we already knew and now got interesting information about them. Our guide, Veronica, was extremely sympathetic, spoke very good German and gave us nice insights into contemporary and historical life in Venice. In addition, we got to know many new points and sights that we would certainly never have found on our own. Thanks again to Veronica, that was a very nice tour! Then we went with Veronica to the Doge's Palace. This one is enormously impressive and defies contrasts. Power and pomp on the one hand in a wealth of detail that you feel you could spend a whole day in any room and then the dark prison rooms with the Bridge of Sighs in contrast.
Walk and visit the palace of interesting dogs. We had 2 different guides for the two successive visits, and both were very interesting.
Very happy with this visit made at the end of August. The organization may seem risky at first. Meet under the clock tower with employees dressed in blue. Many groups meet in the same place at the same time, and receive an audiophone each. Each guide ends up with a sign indicating a number that we can easily find. The French group was very small compared to the other groups, we were 8 with the guide which was very comfortable. The guide, Gloria, was very comfortable in French, and very interesting. With great patience, managing to take cover despite the rain, adapting his step to children, teens and older. Rich in comments, being Venetian by origin, she made us discover her city with a lot of love and knowledge. We found ourselves in the starting place to leave with another group, this time larger, to visit the dog palace. We waited about 15 minutes for the new distribution of groups. Some of them go by gondola, or somewhere else. The Dog Palace is splendid, and Gloria once again shared with us her knowledge of the palace with great precision. Thank you to her for those 3 hours spent in her company.
The walking tour through Venice in the morning was informative and cosy in a small group of approximately 10 people. our guide was a venician woman, who also told us some free tourist hacks like cheap bars and free toilets. Also the tour in doges palace was nicely done. The only thing, that was not good about the tour was the broken microphone of the guide. Sometimes her voice was too low volume to unterstand.
Dear 920stephanie, we are pleased you appreciated the tour despite the inconvenience with the microphone of the guide. Unfortunately, sometimes, there may be little technical problems that cannot be promptly fixed during the tour. Thank you for your understanding! Best regards, Elisa Franzoi venetoinside.com
<p>This was a an enjoyable tour. The guide was very knowledgeable and was good at avoiding the crowded areas.</p>
<p>Great way to see Venice <br/> Do this on your first day and get a great lay of the land and landmarks <br/> Guide was very informative and kept an even pace during the tour<br/> Many many groups meet in the square so get there on time and pay attention to who goes where<br/> As groups get moved around and the second part of our tour the dodges palace was a different group of people.</p>
