Guided Tours

St. Mark's Basilica Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

Name: St. Mark's Basilica Skip-the-Line Guided Tour
Start: 2024-05-12T14:45:00
End: 2024-05-12T15:45:00
Location: Venice

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Head into the most visited site in Venice, St Mark's Basilica renowned for its Byzantine art and rich biblical importance.

Highlights

Discover St. Mark's Basilica on this concise guided tour with skip-the-line entry, ensuring an efficient exploration of this iconic landmark.
Gaze at golden mosaics and celestial chapels beneath the basilica's towering domes, and opt for an aerial view of Venice from its terrace.
Personalize your experience with expert guides fluent in English, Italian, German, French, or Spanish, and select between 45-minute or 1-hour tour options.
Explore the treasures of St. Mark's Museum, from intricate gold tesserae to royal fabrics like the Doge's red velvet.

Inclusions

45-min or 1-hour guided tour of St. Mark's Basilica with skip-the-line entry
Expert English, Italian, German, Spanish or French-speaking guide
Headsets for groups of 10+ people
Access to St. Mark's Museum (optional)
Access to the basilica terraces (optional)

Exclusions

Access to the Pala D'Oro

Cancellation policy

You can cancel these tickets up to 24 hours before the experience begins and get a full refund.

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Guests from United States, France, United Kingdom and over 37 countries have loved this experience

William

5/5

May, 2024

Love the tour, well organized.guide # 5 was great, very informative, persinadalbe, and a good sense of humor. Would recommend it highly!

Curtis

4/5

May, 2024

The tour was incredible and the guide was very informative. However, it was very confusing at meeting place to start. The directions said to meet your tour guide in front of shop at Campo San Zaccaria. No where did it say we needed to go into the place 2 doors down and exchange our vouchers for tickets and get our audio equipment. By the time realized this, the line was so long we were late for our tour, but thankfully they waited for us

Lolita

5/5

May, 2024

Die Tour hat pünktlich begonnen, unser guide war sehr umsorgt um unsere Gruppe, sprach perfekt Deutsch und die Informationen zur Basilica San Marco waren ausführiich, und informativ. Sie verstand es, uns ein ausgewogenes Bild der Geschichte zu vermitteln. Tiefe der Details war genau richtig. Vielen Dank!

Bidard

4/5

Apr, 2024

We appreciated the guide's good French and all her explanations. She was very professional and interesting, answering all our questions. On the negative side, we couldn't always hear properly, as the headphones with only one input meant that we were subjected to too much outside noise. And God knows there's a lot of it, because it's so crowded.

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Jean-marc

4/5

Apr, 2024

We visited St. Mark's Basilica in Venice with a guide who was passionate about history, and it was a very enriching hour for us.

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Your experience

This guided tour of St Mark's Basilica will be nothing short of exhilarating. Indulge in the seamless synthesis of Venetian art with unique Byzantine and Romanesque elements in the form of gleaming golden mosaics, marble inlays, and precious pearls and stones.

From Monday to Saturday, the basilica guided tour includes a visit to the Terrace, where you will find the Horses of Saint Mark. Dating back to classical antiquity, these horses, also known as the Triumphal Quadriga, are a set of Byzantine bronze statues, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing). At St. Mark’s Museum, you can admire objects of various kinds and origins belonging to the Basilica. The tour begins from the ground floor, and you will get to see the gold mosaics (the Basilica has 43,000 square feet of mosaic alone!). On Sundays, feast days, and in case of unplanned religious celebrations, the tour foresees the visit with direct access to the Terrace and to St. Mark's Museum situated on the first floor. On festivity days, the Holy Mass takes place on the ground floor, and it is possible to admire the mosaics partially from the first floor.

Know before you go

What's not allowed

Strict dress code: All guests must wear clothing that covers their shoulders and knees to enter the basilica.
Keep your camera tucked away – photography is strictly not allowed at the venue.

Accessibility

This experience is wheelchair and pram/stroller accessible.
A ramp is available at the Porta del Fiori (Door of Flowers) entrance on the left-hand side of the basilica.
The Museum on the upper floor of the basilica is served by both a lift and stair lifts.

My tickets

Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
Please display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the meeting point.
Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before the scheduled time of your tour to avoid any delays.