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

<p>The tour starts in <strong>PIAZZA SAN MARCO</strong>, where our local guide will reveal all the secrets about the origins and the history of its main monuments: the <strong>St Mark's Basilica</strong>, the <strong>Doge's Palace</strong>, the <strong>Bell Tower</strong> and the <strong>Procuratie</strong>. Then we plunge into one of the most majestic cathedrals of the world: <strong>ST MARK'S BASILICA</strong>! Here you can feast your eyes on the <strong>Byzantine mosaics</strong> and drink in the magic. From the sacred to the profane - the tour ends in the <strong>DOGE'S PALACE</strong>, for centuries the <strong>seat of the Venetian political power</strong>. 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 <strong>two faces of Venice</strong>.</p>