Private tour (using skip the line mode) to visit St. Mark square, St. Mark Basilica and Doge’s Palace. In this tour of the highlights, you’ll discover the most important and visited monuments in Venice: St. Mark square, St. Mark Basilica and Doge’s Palace with the prisons.
Your private licensed guide will start the tour introducing you to the fundamental questions: why Venice has been founded over muddy islands? When? By whom? In which way? This is the secret: only knowing the answers to all these questions, you could get the proper idea of the city, and you could focus on the right places to visit, and only in this way you could understand which is the real pulsanting place of the city: St. Mark square, also known as "living room of Europe". Everything has started there and everything has to go back there.
So, we will also focus on St. Mark square, including St. Mark Basilica, which is the oldest and most important church in Venice: more of 1000 years of history, about 86,000 square feet (8,000 square meters) of golden mosaics, a golden altarpiece made by almost 2,000 precious stones, and much more.
Furthermore, we will visit the most impressive museum in Venice, aka Doge’s Palace, the ancient house of the government; inside you will enthusiast to admire Grand Council hall, measuring 14,000 square feet (1,300 square meters), fully decorated by historical paintings, and also you will visit the sinister prisons, only reachable by crossing the narrow and famour Bridge of Sighs. All the highlights of Venice in this amazing tour.