Absolute Venice: walking tour, St Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace from Venice

The tour starts in **PIAZZA SAN MARCO**, where our local guide will reveal all the secrets about the origins and the history of its main monuments: the **St Mark's Basilica**, the **Doge's Palace**, the **Bell Tower** and the **Procuratie**. Then we plunge into one of the most majestic cathedrals of the world: **ST MARK'S BASILICA**! Here you can feast your eyes on the **Byzantine mosaics** and drink in the magic. From the sacred to the profane - the tour ends in the **DOGE'S PALACE**, for centuries the **seat of the Venetian political power**. In its splendid rooms, plastered with literally hundreds of masterpieces of paintings, the Duke and his Council controlled the fate of a thousand-year history republic. A tour to see the **two faces of Venice**.