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The Doge's Palace is a palace and art museum in Venice, Italy, and it dates from 1340. It is built in the Gothic style and stands on Saint Mark's Square, so many tours link it with the Bridge of Sighs, and one adds Saint Mark's Basilica. This page groups the tours by the kind of visit you want: a guided walk through the halls, the prisons and the bridge, or a visit that adds Saint Mark's Basilica or lets you go at your own pace.
A guide is the simplest way to follow the story of the palace room by room. These four guided visits take between one hour and two hours, and they differ mostly in group size, language and the extras they list. Check each tour page for the exact route and what is included. More tours and ideas for the city are on the page for Venice.
A two-hour visit with a local guide, in English, as a small group or privately. The route lists the Great Council Hall, the Armory, the Doge's Apartments, the Bridge of Sighs and the New Prisons.
A small-group guided visit of one hour and fifteen minutes, offered in German, English, Spanish, French and Italian. It covers the state rooms, the prisons and the crossing of the Bridge of Sighs.
A small-group visit of one hour and fifteen minutes with a licensed guide in English, with the Great Council Hall, the Bridge of Sighs and the historic prison cells.
A small-group visit of one hour and fifteen minutes with a live guide. It ends in the History Gallery, where a virtual reality headset shows Saint Mark's Square in different historical periods.
If the prison cells are the part of the story you want, these two tours put them at the centre.
A one-hour small-group visit of the prison palace, with cells, hidden corridors and the torture chamber, led in English or Italian by a guide dressed as a Lord of the Night.
A small-group visit of one hour and fifteen minutes in French, with the Giants' Staircase, the state halls, the Great Council Hall, the Bridge of Sighs and the cells of the New Prison.
Not every visit has to be a short guided walk. One tour pairs the palace with Saint Mark's Basilica, and two others give you the palace with an audio guide or a guidebook to use as you like.
A two-hour and forty-five minute small-group tour in five languages, with the palace, the Bridge of Sighs and the prisons, then the interior of Saint Mark's Basilica, the Pala d'Oro and the Treasury.
A self-guided visit of about one and a half hours, with a digital audio guide, access to the Correr Museum and a fully refundable ticket.
A visit of about two and a half hours at your own pace, with a multilingual guidebook and the crossing of the Bridge of Sighs.
The guided visits take from one hour to two hours, the combined tour with Saint Mark's Basilica takes two hours and forty-five minutes, and the tickets with an audio guide or guidebook suggest about one and a half to two and a half hours. The duration is on each tour page.
Several tours are offered in more than one language, including English, German, Spanish and French. Others run in one or two languages: English for the Gothic masterpiece tour, English or Italian for the prison tour and French for the prisons tour with the state halls. Check the language on each tour page.
It differs from tour to tour. Some tours list the entrance or the palace access in the included items, and others say that tickets are not included unless stated at booking. Check the included list on each tour page before you choose.
Sources: Wikidata (CC0).
