Venice Tour: St. Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace

Experience exclusive access to Doge’s Palace with skip-the-line tickets and a personal audio guide. Explore the palace’s secrets, admire its stunning halls and artworks, and visit the Venetian prisons. Don’t miss the opportunity to visit other museums as well!

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Doge’s Palace - Continue your journey to the Doge’s Palace, the symbol of Venetian Republic’s power and grandeur. Your priority ticket grants you quick access, allowing you to explore without delay. Wander through the palace’s opulent rooms, grand staircases, and intricate artworks.
  • Basilica di San Marco - With fast-track entry to St. Mark’s…
What's Included
  • Priority Entrance to Doge’s Palace
  • Ticket to visit San Marco Museums (Correr & Archeological Museums, Marciana Library)
  • Priority Entrance to St. Mark’s Basilica
  • Mobile audio guide (download on your own mobile)
  • Venice History Hall Priority Admission
What's Not Included
  • Earnphones
  • Guided Visit
Additional Information

Admire the golden mosaics, stunning Byzantine architecture, and impressive collection of artworks. Enhance your visit with an audio guide, available in multiple languages, to uncover the basilica’s secrets, stories, and artistic details at your own pace.
Next, continue to the Doge’s Palace, a symbol of the Venetian Republic’s power and grandeur. Your…

Location
Venice Tours
Calle San Gallo
Venice Tours is in Campo San Gallo, beside San Marco Square. Having the Basilica of San Marco behind you, stay on the right side of the square and go under the arches. Find Olivetti Museum, turn right, pass under the archways, cross the little bridge and go straight to “Campo San Gallo”.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Sunshinesenora13
Nov 2, 2024
Don't miss this experience - Amazing place to see. I highly recommend it. The agency staff were very helpful and efficient. Explained everything clearly and even recharged my phone, when it died.
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Linda_w
Oct 22, 2024
Worthwhile - This was a very slick way to see these two Greatest hits of Venice! Finding the tourist office to get the tickets is a bit of a treasure hunt. Plan ahead and allow for time to get a little lost. We were a bit lucky on that point. Nevertheless, we picked up everything we needed quickly and efficiently and enjoyed stress-free tours. I recommend it, no question.
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Summer_s
Aug 26, 2024
Main attractions - St marks basilica isn’t worth the money, it’s literally a gold church inside done within 2 mins, however a lot more to doges palace. Deffo recommend getting skip the line tickets as when all the tourists arrive the lines are insane
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Shaun_l
Aug 14, 2024
Fantastic - Everything what a fantastic place and so educational the building was and the murreals were out off the world
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Susan_r
Jul 14, 2024
Great History Lesson - Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and gave such detailed information about the history of the Doges and paintings. For somebody who came in knowing nothing, three of us left with a ton of information as to how Venice operated and how the politicians worked within the building. Even before we entered the building she shared information about the square and pointed out areas that we should check out afterwards.
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K1862wxangelab
Oct 16, 2024
Rip off - They make you download an audio guide on your own phone BUT because there is no reception in the basilica you can’t use it at all. Total rip off.
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Kenton_c
Jun 29, 2024
Not good value for money - The palace was well worth a visit but the ‘audio tour’ was not. It would not work as it kept asking for us to pay for it even though it was pre booked. There was supposed to be a virtual tour but this did not happen so all in all not good value for money at all. It would be better to get the skip the line ticket directly from the Doge Palace website as it is cheaper. They also provide their own audio guide for €5.
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Michael_r
Oct 18, 2024
Get your tickets on the Doges Palace website and download Rick Steves audio guide of the palace. - The most memorable moment was when we arrived at the office of the company and the group had left early. No one alerted me, no one took responsibility. I did receive the tickets to the palace but had to guide my group through myself. Disappointing and a lot of work.
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Sue
Aug 18, 2024
We were told to be at... - We were told to be at Venice tours at 10:45 for a 11:15 tour of the Doge Palace. We were not told to be there much earlier for the Basilica tour. By the time the Doge Palace tour was over, all the Basilica tours had finished. We were not able to tour the Basilica although we paid for it
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Emma_s
Jun 25, 2024
Buy a ticket there - Amazing place. Ticket was a con as we never got the audio guide ! We asked about it at the information centre and we had to pay 5 euro more each if we wanted it! The scan on the ticket took you to a car advert ?!?!
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