Venice Museums: Tickets and guided Tours

Venice is a little pearl rich of stories, legends and history to tell. Venice was the centre of the Republic of Venice, where the highest position in the governed territory was the Doge. Venice was also the hometown of very talented artists, which left as an inheritance their works of art in the city. Due to the richness of the legends and history tied to this city, one of the best way to know this city is with Venice guided tours.

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We have a wide choice of Venice guided tours, reflecting the many sightseeing that Venice offers. We definitely suggest you the Doge’s palace guided tours, a tour that will lead you into the domicile of the most important person in Venice, the Doge. This palace is interesting also for the function of prison that it had in history: a prison that saw among the jailer also famous people like Giacomo Casanova. If accompanied by a nice weather you also cannot miss to see the city centre and the typical urban system of little streets, named Calle, and the canals. In this case we suggest you the Absolute Venice guided tours, with which you will discover the most important places of Venice.

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In case you will consider yourself satisfied with Venice, you can always discover the beautiful surroundings of the city. In the lagoon there are some small island, each one has a peculiarity that distinguishes one island from the other. Our Venice guided tour of the island will lead you by boat to three of these island: Murano, Burano and Torcello. Murano is world famous for the artisanal glass production, while Burano is a quiet fisherman’s island and in Torcello you will find interesting antiquities also of medieval times. This is only an example of the many Venice guided tours that you can reserve on our web site, each one is a part of Venice to discover. 

Palazzo Ducale is known for the history that it had during the republic of Venice, as it was the residence of the Doge and the place where all the decisions regarding the city of Venice and its surroundings were taken. However, Palazzo Ducale was seen in a darkest light from many of the citizens of Venice, as Palazzo Ducale was also a prison. The Secret Itineraries at Palazzo Ducale are a strong part of this story.

The secret itineraries tour at Palazzo Ducale

Just the lower part of Palazzo Ducale were designated as prisons: a very unpleasant prisons as the cells were at ground level and the humidity of the lagoon was very strong inside the little rooms. From these spaces there was, and there is, a little passage, the secret itineraries at Palazzo Ducale, that ended in the world famous Bridge of Sights, or “Ponte dei Sospiri”. The architecture of this bridge is wonderful in all its details, but its story tells of prisoners conducted though the bridge, probably seeing Venice and its lagoon for the last time. That is the reason of its name: it is called the bridge of sight because the legend says the prisoners sighed passing through the bridge. On our site you have all the information about our tour of the Secret Itineraries at Palazzo Ducale.

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The secret itineraries at Palazzo Ducale counted many famous guests. Giacomo Casanova passed through these spaces when he was imprisoned at Palazzo Ducale. His imprisonment however had not a long duration, as it is known from literature and illustrations of the time that Casanova tried and succeed to escape from the jail passing through the roof. Casanova then went inside the Palace again and escaped from one of the main entrances, which were opened to him as the guard thought is was a visitor that remained trapped inside the building. The Secret Itineraries at Palazzo Ducale have many of these stories to tell, the best one can do is visit them with a guided tour, where the expert guide will reveal you all of their secrets. 

Venice Museums are often related to the life and willing on important and rich people that took part of the history of the Republic of Venice. This is also the case of Correr Museum Venice, which was constructed thanks to the donations of Teodoro Correr, coming from a noble Venetian family.

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The building of the Correr Museum in Venice was constructed in the first half of the 19^th century, the collection takes place in wide spaces called Procuratie: spaces intended to be aimed at ceremonies behind the willing of Napoleon. The Correr museum Venice counts several rooms, many of them with neoclassical decoration or frescos. In the Correr Museum Venice you will find sculptures by Canova, like Dedalus and Icarus, which he painted when he was young. The sculptural group is interesting for the symmetry that Canova created: the two figures are one next to the other, in symmetrical position. The whole sculptural group conveys a perfect equilibrium and balance, like many of the statues of this talented sculptor.

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In the ballroom of Correr Museum in Venice the visitor will find the sculptural group of Orpheus and Eurydice, always by Antonio Canova. The sculptural group refers to the myth of the Orpheus that loses forever his beloved, that has to go back again to the underworld. To emphasize this loss Canova divided the sculptural group into two statues: Orpheus precedes his beloved and turns back to see her, reason that caused the maid to go back to the underworld. The facial expressions of the two statues are strongly underlined and they will surprise you for their naturalness. Note also the hand that comes out from the cloud behind Eurydice and hold her from running away. Seeing this statue in Venice has a peculiar meaning as Canova did this work just in this city. Visit the Correr museum Venice and enjoy this wonderful sight. Book tickets now!

When travelling on boat or gondola on the Canal Grande, you will see at a certain moment a building that is different from the other ones. We are talking of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, where the Guggenheim collection is hosted. The Guggenheim Collection Venice has a long story to tell, about the collection and about the pioneer of the Collection, Peggy Guggenheim.

The Guggenheim collection Venice at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni

The difference among the other buildings stays in the highness of the building, which is visibly shorter from the rest of buildings. The reason stays in the fact that Palazzo Venier dei Leoni seems to be unfinished: in fact it had to have another floor, instead of the ground floor that it actually has. Why does? The reason is unclear, maybe the funds for the building of the Guggenheim Collection in Venice came to an end when the work was unfinished, or probably the rich family living in front of the palace were not agree about the construction of a building that had to be higher that theirs. A ticket for the Guggenheim collection Venice permits you to learn this interesting story.

Tickets for the Guggenheim collection Venice

The other interesting side about this museum, in addition of course to the splendid works that it contains, is the story of the founder of the Guggenheim collection Venice, Peggy Guggenheim. She was born in USA at the end of 19^th century, and from the very beginning of her career she was fond of art, especially contemporary art. Than she moved to Europe where she met important people and intellectuals of those years. In London she founded her first gallery, where she exposed works of Jean Cocteau and Vasily Kandinsky. In 1948 she bought Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which she chose also as her residence. She moved here her whole collection, which includes some of the most important artists of the 20^th century, as Picasso, de Chirico, Dalì and Pollock. Visit the Guggenheim collection in Venice, a museum you cannot loss. Book all museums in Venice!

One of the guests of the Accademia is Jacopo Tintoretto. Jacopo Tintoretto was a Venetian painter whose father was a dyer, “tintore” in Italian, name that was the cause of the surname that Jacopo received, Tintoretto. Jacopo Tintoretto was an important painter for the renaissance. Tintoretto at the Accademia Gallery in Venice is the best chance to know better this wonderful period.

Tintoretto’s works at the Accademia Gallery in Venice

Tintoretto at the Accademia Gallery in Venice has a presence in many masterpieces. One of this is the “Creation of animals”, a stunning work of big dimensions. The painting is made with oil on canvas. Oil permits a strong painting that reflects well Tintoretto’s art. In all of his paintings in fact colours are always vivid and strong. In this painting we see God in the act of creating the animals, which they seem to appear on the canvas just in the moment in which the visitor watches it. Around the Divine we see in fact several species of animals, like rabbits or owl. Movements and action is suggested by the many birds that fly from the body of the divine towards the sky.  Tintoretto at the Accademia Gallery in Venice cannot be left unseen.

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Tintoretto at the Accademia Gallery in Venice is easily visible with our tickets for the Accademia Gallery, ticket that permits you to jump the external line that usually throng the entrance of the museum. This museum in Venice is in fact one of the most famous, thanks to the value of the works of art that it contains. Another one among the many work that the visitor will see in the museum is the “Miracle of Slave”, where Saint Mark intervene and frees a slave that was about to be killed for his veneration of another saint respect from Saint Mark, the saint of Venice. Come to see all the details of this work of Tintoretto at the Accademia Gallery in Venice. Book tickets now! Or a guided tour with private guide. Click here!

Thanks to the urban peculiarities and the artistic heritage, Venice has no equals in the world. There is no other city in the world where there are no streets but canals and no cars but boat. Take a walk through its little street and through the bridges and you will have the sensation of visiting a place belonging of another time. These are the major sightseeing in Venice.

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With our tour operator you will have several options relating to the numerous sightseeing of Venice. We surely suggest you to reach Piazza San Marco, heart of the city. Here you will walk under the clock tower, which indicates not just the time but also the seasons and the lunar cycles. After the clock tower the tourist can visit the Correr Museum, important for the paintings that contains, like the works of Canaletto. Facing the Correr Museum, at the opposite part of the square you see Saint Mark’s Square, probably the most famous of Venice Sightseeing. Entire books could be filled just with the description of the rich façade of this church.

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The architecture and interiors of this Basilica, which is also called the golden basilica, for the colour of the domes, is fully explained in one of our guided tours, run by expert guides. Next to the Basilica the eye goes to the Doge’s Palace, one of the sightseeing of Venice. This was the residence of the Doge, the highest political role in Venice. Parts of the Doge’s palace had also the function of prisons, which saw very famous prisoners among its cells, like Giacomo Casanova, which succeeded to escape from the prison by the roof of Palazzo Ducale. You can visit Venice sightseeing with tickets, or with guided tours. In both cases you will avoid the line at the entrances of the museums. 

Most of the treasures of Venice are around Piazza San Marco, centre of the city. In fact around Piazza San Marco the visitor finds the marvellous clock tower, the old procuracies, one facing the other, the Correr Museum, Saint Mark’s Basilica and Palazzo Ducale, that signs the beginning of Riva degli Schiavoni.

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Palazzo Ducale in Venice is surely the monument on which guides and tourist pauses more, as its elegant beauty cannot pass unnoticed. In this palace many artists worked, artists that lived in Venice and are now extremely famous, as Jacopo Tintoretto and his son Domenico. These two artists worked at the painting The Paradise, which covers an entire wall of a hall, used by the council of the republic to gather and discuss about the city and its law. Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto at first painted different section of the huge painting on different canvas, which assembled together on the wall so that the final painting could seem as one. This work is one of the most beautiful of Palazzo Ducale in Venice.

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This painting is not just beautiful but thanks to its dimensions, (it is high 7 meters and large 22 meters) is it the bigger painting in the world. The first idea of the painting wanted Mary at the centre of the painting, at the top of it, where the sight of the spectators ends its journey. However, the initial idea of putting Mary at the top was substituted by Christ as a Divine Doge. Reserve a ticket for Palazzo Ducale in Venice, and take a time to appreciate this painting in all the details that Jacopo Tintoretto and his son did. The father mainly worked at the paintings, while the young Domenico helped in technical things as jointing the canvas together and hanging them at the wall. The work of these two artists is waiting for you, book a ticket for Palazzo Ducale Venice. Book Palazzo Ducale Tickets.

The Secret Itineraries tour in the the Doge’s Palace twist and turn along some of the rooms where, during the Serenissima, delicate and important activities  related to the administration of the state and of the exercise of power were developed. They offer an interesting point of view on the civil and political story of the city, of its organization, structure and justice.

It is possible to book the Secret Itineraries tour just with a reservation and with an expert guide who is capable of show their peculiarities. The tour starts with a minimum of two people and the group has a maximum of 25 people, every day with a scheduled time. The tours lasts one hour and half and at the end of it you can visit the Doge’s Palace without the guide. Reduced price is for people older that 65 years old, European students, teachers and young people under 14 years old.

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Once in Venice, after having visited the beautiful and typical historical centre, you cannot miss a visit at the Accademia Gallery in Venice. The Accademia Gallery in Venice is one of the most important museum of the city, as it hosts works of art of Canaletto, Tiziano, Tintoretto and most of all the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.

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The building of Accademia Gallery in Venice began in 13^th century, when the complex was under the hegemony of the church. The Accademy was founded in 1750. The Accademia Gallery in Venice does worth a visit, and in first place for the Vitruvian Man. The famous painting is in fact a pen and pencil drawing on paper. It represents the human body in geometrical proportions: the human body is included in a circle, symbol of divine perfection, and a square. This drawing came to be also the symbol of the Renaissance, as man is at the perfect centre of everything: just as in the imagery and philosophy of the renaissance.

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The painting guarded by the Accademia is also a symbol of the merging of science and painting, which reflects also the different disciplines run by Leonardo da Vinci. The Vitruvian Man is so important for Italy and its culture that it was chosen as the symbol of the Euro coin, by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, when he was minister of Economy.  Accademia Gallery in Venice is important and the visitor should visit it not just for the Venetian art that is here contained but also for important works of art like the Vitruvian Man, which represent Italian art all over the world.  Visit our site and check out all the possibilities to visit Accademia Gallery in Venice. Book a private tour!

The Accademia Gallery in Venice is a museum that gathers the most important works of the art of Venice, mostly relating to the period from the 14^th to the 18^th century. Among the represented artist we find Giorgione, Bellini, Carpaccio, Tintoretto and Tiziano. We find also other form of art as sculptures and drawing, and among the drawings there is the “Uomo Vitruviano” of Leonardo da Vinci and it is conserved inside the Room of Drawings of the Accademia. The work is a drawing made with ink and pencil and it shows the human proportions in a geometric way and it is accompanied by two explicative texts. One is on the upper part of the drawing and one at the bottom, and they are both two passage from Vitruvio. The drawing is an homage to the classical thinking and it represents a relation between art and science. The “Uomo Vitruviano” was chosen by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to appear on the 1 Euro coin.

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