Venice: Gondola ride and Skip the line Doge's Palace Tour

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Discover Venice from the water and enjoy a tour along the Grand Canal past the most beautiful sights of the city in a gondola, then follow your guide and discover the Doge's Palace, one of the most important symbols of Venice and for centuries.

Experience a 30-minute gondola ride through the lagoon city of Venice and admire the city built on stilts

Admire the world′s largest oil painting by Tintoretto

Visit the prisons of the Doge's Palace by crossing the Bridge of Sighs

 

Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian

 

Included:

• 30 min shared gondola ride with max. 5 people per gondola
• 1 hour guided tour inside the Doge's Palace
• Entrance fee
• Skip-the-line entrance
• Personal audio system and headset for tour commentary

Requirements:

• Meeting point 15 min before
• This tour is not suitable if you have limited mobility
• This activity is not wheelchair accessible
• This tour operates rain or shine
• Backpacks are not allowed inside the Doge's Palace

Program and cast

MEETING POINT:
15 min before in Calle larga de l’Ascension - 30124 at the wooden kiosk next to the post office San Marco (opposite side of the Saint Marks Basilica). Turive assistant.
Look for the yellow sign "Meeting point" on the wooden kiosk. Leaving the Saint Mark's square behind you, it's the one on your right (not the newspaper shop on the left).

Show your voucher twice, one for the gondola and one for the Doge's palace tour 


- Arriving by boat (Vaporetto): Arriving close to the Saint Marks Square get off the boat ACTV (Vaporetto) No:1 or No:2 at the San Marco (Vallaresso) boat stop and walk directly down the street “Calle Vallaresso” passing Harrys bar on your right and the Hotel Monaco and Grand canal on your left. When you arrive at the end of the street turn right and walk towards Saint Marks square, before you pass under the arches turn left and you will find the post office and the wooden kiosk on your left in few meters. The wooden kiosk is the one next to the post office. Turive assistant. 

- Arriving by foot: Make you way into Saint Marks square, at the opposite side of the Saint Mark’s Basilica you will see the Correr Museum. Pass under the arches of it and you will find immediately the post office and the wooden kiosk. The wooden kiosk is the one next to the post office.


• Check-in is 15 minutes prior to booked tour start time
• This activity is not wheelchair accessible
• The gondola ride is not a guided tour
• Backpacks are not allowed inside the Doge's Palace
• Children are free until 5 years, from 6 they pay the full ticket (document required).
 

It is your responsibility to be at the meeting point punctually.
Late arrivals, no shows, NO REFUND!

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