Venice – Tour of the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace in the Square of San Marcos

Interior alley of the Bridge of the Sighs in the Ducal Palace of Venice

A very advisable visit when in your trip to Venice you go to the Ducal Palace of the Square of San Marcos is the tour of the Secret Itineraries. It is a question of a visit guided in groups of approximately 15-25 persons by different stays of the Chancellery that have been protagonists of the darkest history of the Republic of Venice.

The tour of the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace has to save himself with advance, being the visits guided in Italian, French and English, and comes to extend one hour and a quarter.

The visit begins for the bedrooms of the Notary of the Palace Duca l, who was doing the secretary's functions of the Palace, then to go to the Office of the Chancellor, equivalent to the General File. After rising for a stairs, it goes over to the big secret Room of the Chancellery, where during the Republic of Venice the magistrates were doing secret meetings.

From here, one enters the most interesting area of the visit, the Chamber of the Tortures, in which there attracts attention the rope that hangs by the roof and that was used to hold the dolls of the tortured ones. Asímismo, there are seen the cells where Giacomo Casanova was when he was a prisoner in the Ducal Palace of Venice.

After happening for the rooms that exist in the attic, at a height of Put della Paglia, where weapon of the XVIth century can be seen, it goes over to the Room of the Inquisitors, whose roof is decorated by works of Tintoretto realized in 1567.

The tour of the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace ends in the Lounge of the Council of the Ten, to which it goes over after crossing a secret secret alley after a wooden framework.

The visit schedule to the Secret Itineraries of the Ducal Palace is the following one:

• visit guided in Italian: 9,30 hours and 11,10 hours
• visit guided in English: 9,55 hours, 10,45 hours and 11,35 hours.
• visit guided in French: 10,20 hours and 12 hours.

The price of the tour for the Secret Itineraries is of 16 euros (2010) and 10 euros the entry reduced for, for example, children up to 14 years or students up to 29 years. The updated information and the details of the tariffs you find them in the official web of the Ducal Palace.

The reservation for the tour of the Secret Itineraries, which is essential to do it with advance, can be done in the web of the Ducal Palace. Once realized, when you come to Venice and go to the Ducal Palace, you do not have to wait for the possible tail that should exist in the entry for the visit of the palace, but you have to go to the box offices to join to the corresponding group to do the itineraries.

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