Venice Highlights Tour: St. Mark's Basilica & Doge's Palace

Immerse yourself in the beauty and history of Venice on a small group guided tour of St. Mark’s Basilica and Doge’s Palace. With pre-reserved tickets and an expert local guide, you’ll discover the city’s major highlights and gain insider knowledge for the rest of your visit.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Venice - Join a 3-hour guided tour in Venice to see the major highlights of the city led by an expert guide. The tour includes two must-see sites: Doge’s Palace and Basilica of St. Mark, both with pre-reserved tickets.
What's Included
  • Expert local guide offering inside knowledge
  • Enjoyable 3-hour walking tour at your own pace
  • Included tickets to the Correr Museum
  • Admission to the National Archaeological Museum & Biblioteca Marciana
  • Pre-reserved entry to the iconic Doge’s Palace
  • Intimate small group tour for a personalized experience
  • Pre-reserved access to the stunning St. Mark’s Basilica
What's Not Included
  • Guided Tour of Correr Museum, National Archeological Museum, and Biblioteca Marciana
  • Transportation to/from the meeting point
Additional Information

Participate in a small group tour for an intimate and engaging journey.
Utilize pre-booked tickets to maximize your precious holiday period.
Experience the main attractions of the city, St. Mark’s Basilica and Doge’s Palace through one 3-hour tour.
Discover Venice and its significant landmarks with a local guide possessing comprehensive knowledge about…

Location
Colonna di San Marco
Piazzetta San Marco
We meet in Saint Mark’s Square near the waterfront by the two large columns. Our guide will be under the one with the winged lion on top. Your guide will have a signboard that says, “Walks In Europe.”
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Suret_e
Mar 23, 2025
Happy ducklings! - We were the fortunate ducklings who got to see Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Basilica through the eyes of Claire, our extremely knowledgeable, enthusiastic and energetic guide. She drew the group in by learning each individual’s name, giving the tour a personal touch with her efforts. Within 5 minutes, each individual knew something about the perfect stranger standing next to them. She added incredible context, insight and perspective to the tour, and made it a fun and entertaining experience, breaking it up into palatable portions. Most of all, she’s an amazing person who made a serious effort to add value to each and every person on her tour. She deserves all the credit she gets and more!
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Laura
Mar 22, 2025
Beautiful and informative tour! - We visited the Doges Palace and St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice with Hilaria as our tour guide. It was a small group and Hilaria was excellent, offering lots of good information about history, art and architecture. It was very enjoyable and we were also very appreciative of her generosity, providing us with recommendations of other places to go and restaurants to enjoy. I would highly recommend this tour!
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Q9578fxseanh
Mar 19, 2025
Doge’s Palace and the Basillica brought to life - Excellent tour Guide Eliza, brought history to life for us and mixed this with humour. Great introduction to Venice for us . Highly recommend
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Beth_b
Mar 17, 2025
Historical Tour with Knowledgeable Guide - We have been consistently pleased with our Viator tour experiences. Elisabetta was an absolutely marvelous guide for our 2.5 hour tour of the Doge Palace/Palazzo Ducale. Her knowledge of Venetian and ancient Roman history brought the palace to life. Her sense of humor and charm kept us entertained. She even had a sack of treats and visuals (maps, graphs, charts) that illustrated her points. We very much felt like we were in our favorite professor’s history class. We would recommend this tour highly and if Elisabetta is your guide, then you will be in for a lovely adventure.
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Darlene_s
Mar 16, 2025
Tour Guide - Our tour guide was the best. Her humor is beautiful and we just loved the whole day. The knowledge she had was incredible.
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Isaac
Mar 10, 2025
Wonderful Tour! - Christina was amazing at story telling and the palace was beautiful. Definitely recommend this to everyone going to Venice.
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H7837mnmichaelk
Mar 9, 2025
Venice - Guide was highly energetic and enthusiastic. Also very knowledgeable of all things Venice. The things we saw were amazing as well.
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Jane_l
Mar 16, 2025
Spent most of the tour in... - Spent most of the tour in the Doge’s Palace, not so much in Saint Marks. Interesting history and some very nice art. Overall, positive experience, although it was difficult to understand, our guide understand our guide a good portion of the time
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Jane_p
Mar 18, 2025
Basilica closed the day... - Basilica closed the day of the tour, though. It the tour guide’s fault. We only got to see the Doge palace. Museum was also closed. It ended up being a three hour tour of the Doge palace, which was just too long and got boring despite guide’s best efforts. Only got 6 Euro refunded because St. Mark’s closed.
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Kimberly_f
Mar 25, 2025
Our tout guide did not... - Our tout guide did not tell the history of either Doge's Palace or San Marco Cathedral. This was our second tour of the sites and we were really disappointed with this tour. You couldn't understand the tour guide most of the time. We would have been better off buying our own ticjets and going through on our own.
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