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Skip-the-line access to St. Mark's Basilica and the Doge's Palace with your own private guide.
Explore the golden mosaics and Byzantine interior of St. Mark's Basilica with your private guide, then cross the Bridge of Sighs into the Doge's Palace.
Skip-the-line access to St. Mark's Basilica with insight from your private guide, followed by escorted entrance to the Doge's Palace to learn its history and cross the Bridge of Sighs.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your private guide at St. Mark's Square, Venice.
Avoid the queues at both landmarks.
Cross this famous bridge into the Doge's Palace.
Your guide walks you back to a convenient point near your hotel.
Explore the golden mosaics and Byzantine interior of St. Mark's Basilica with your private guide, then cross the Bridge of Sighs into the Doge's Palace. Skip-the-line access to St. Mark's Basilica with insight from your private guide, followed by escorted entrance to the Doge's Palace to learn its history and cross the Bridge of Sighs.
St. Mark's Basilica's golden mosaics and Byzantine interior set the tone for the first half of this tour, with skip-the-line access meaning your private guide can walk you straight in rather than standing in the queue that regularly wraps around Piazza San Marco during busy months, sometimes for well over an hour at a stretch before you even reach the door.
From there, the tour crosses into the Doge's Palace by way of the Bridge of Sighs — an enclosed limestone passage built in 1600, connecting the palace's interrogation rooms to the prison across the canal. Its English name comes from Lord Byron, who translated the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri" in the 19th century, built on the romantic idea that condemned prisoners would sigh at their last glimpse of Venice through the bridge's barred windows before being led away to their cells.
That image is more legend than literal history, worth knowing before you cross it: by the time the bridge was actually built, Venice's era of summary executions was long over, and the cells it led to mostly held people convicted of fairly minor offenses — though the windows are so heavily grilled that there wasn't really much of a view to sigh over either way.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
