St Mark's Museum and Cathedral guided tour

This unique tour will guide you through the most beautiful corners of St. Mark’s Museum and Cathedral while giving you a unique and wonderful vantage view. See this majestic Venetian artwork from above, feeling the emotions of an exclusive panoramic view and discovering its charming beauty.

The tour starts from the narthex, where you will meet your guide. You will go to St. Mark’s Museum where scale models show how the Basilica was originally built, and you’ll see how it appeared to visitors and worshippers in the past age.
You can admire the famous mosaics of St Mark’s Cathedral from an advantaged place that will let you observe them from a close-up and appreciate the different construction stages of the mosaics of this wonderful Basilica, discovering how they were crafted. A set of panels illustrate the time-honored techniques and a private presentation of them will take place later in the tour, away from the crowd.

You will reach the external loggia, and you will admire from above the beautiful one of the most fascinating and evocative places in the world: St Mark’s Square.

Anyway, the fundamental point during our guided tour in St Mark’s Cathedral will be the visit to the gilded bronze horses - masterpieces of the Greek Hellenistic sculptures once used to decorate the hippodrome of Constantinople and today a symbol of the Venice Cathedral.

This unique guided tour of St Mark’s Basilica will continue with a view of the statue of the Madonna with child in gilded terracotta by Sansovino.

The grand finale of the tour of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice will take place in the Banquets Hall.