Venice Guided Walking Tour with St- Mark’s Doge’s Palace or Gondola Ride

Venice Guided Walking Tour with St- Mark’s Doge’s Palace or Gondola Ride

See the top Venice attractions in a short space of time on this comprehensive Best of Venice walking tour! With an expert guide, see sights like Rialto Bridge and St Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), and then enjoy a tour of St Mark's Basilica, to which you’ll have skip-the-line access.

If you want to see more, upgrade to include a Doge's Palace tour! Explore its opulent public rooms, see the Bridge of Sighs and learn about the doges, who ruled Venice in bygone times.

Itinerary
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Pass By: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy

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Stop At: Basilica di San Marco, Piazza San Marco 328, 30124 Venice Italy

With Skip-the-Line Access at St. Mark’s Basilica, you can discover the church’s dazzling gold-inlaid dome and even have time to climb to the basilica’s terraces. Not covered on most tours, these spectacular terraces offer panoramic views of St. Mark’s Square and the city beyond.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124 Venice Italy

It all comes together at the Doge’s Palace, where the Duke of Venice once held court. This is the center of Venice’s history and identity as the world’s oldest republic. Once again you’ll skip the line outside, giving your guide more time to show you the rooms where history happened, as well as the Tintoretto and Veronese frescoes that make the palace fit for a Duke. As the tour concludes, you’ll feel the many facets of the Floating City combine into a beautiful, glittering whole.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy

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Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Casa di Marco Polo, Calle Scaleta, 30121 Venice Italy

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Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Campanile di San Marco, Sestiere San Marco 328, 30124 Venice Italy

Passing by during the walking tour

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 6363 Venice Italy

Passing by during the walking tour

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Campo San Luca, San Marco District, Venice Italy

Passing by during the walking tour

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Gondolieri Travel, Rio Terà dei Franceschi, 4610, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy

You will enjoy a shared gondola (when option chosen) tour of the waterways with a real local gondoliere. We’ll start on Venice’s main thoroughfare, the much-traveled Grand Canal, where we’ll see such sights as Santa Maria della Salute Church, a 17th-century Baroque building constructed by lucky plague survivors to thank God for sparing their lives. Next, we’ll veer off down the quieter minor canals where we’ll float lazily by more iconic city sights and under its famous bridges. You will catch views of the dazzling Fenice Opera House and Theatre, the former home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Venice, the magnificent Church of San Moisè and the gothic style Bauer Palace.

Duration: 30 minutes