Private Tour to Discover the Most Beautiful Monuments of Venice: The Basilica of San Marco & the Doge’s Palace !

If you are visiting Venice for the first time, you absolutely cannot miss this tour! Take in the essence of the city through its two most representative monuments, the Basilica of San Marco and the Doge’s Palace!

An expert private guide will reveal every secret of the city and will take you on a journey full of art and beauty within two symbols of Venice: the Basilica of San Marco and the Doge’s Palace.

You will meet your expert guide in the heart of the city, the wonderful Piazza San Marco, dominated by the bell tower and Basilica of the same name.

Later you will visit the Basilica of San Marco, the visible symbol of the power and wealth acquired by the Serenissima over the centuries, an architectural jewel of rare beauty, with its golden mosaics, polychrome decorations, its five domes, and the legendary Pala d’Oro, which is part of the Tesoro di San Marco.

Your private guide will entertain you with the stories and anecdotes that have made Venice one of the most visited tourist destinations in the world, revealing details that you will not find in any paper guide.

Once the visit to the Basilica is over, you will continue in the direction of the Doge’s Palace, a masterpiece of Venetian Gothic which draws inspiration from Byzantine and Eastern architecture and which, for this reason, clearly exemplifies the intensity of the commercial and cultural relations between the Serenissima Republic and the other European states.

Follow your private guide to the luxurious rooms and stairways of the Palace, admiring the works of art kept in the art gallery, including paintings by Tintoretto and Titian, to end the tour by crossing the Bridge of Sighs, so called because according to legend, when prisoners crossed it, they sighed at the prospect of seeing the outside world for the last time.