Get the unique opportunity to visit St.Mark’s Basilica and the nearby area from a different perspective, enjoying a bird’s eye view of the wonderful St. Mark's Square in Venice. Walk into one of history's most beautiful cathedrals, and explore away from the big crowds. Marvel at St. Mark's bronze horses which used to adorn the hippodrome of Constantinople, the symbol of St. Mark's Cathedral. This tour will give you the extraordinary opportunity to access St.Mark’s Cathedral and its external lodge, where you’ll feel breathless at the beauty and enchantment of St Mark’s Square and its buildings viewed from above.
Posted By : Jacqui_C
Seeing the basilica was amazing but felt that the guide was a bit unwell and wasn’t at her best hard to understand some of what she was saying
Think perhaps it would have been better just to pop in ourselves
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Posted On : 2023-07-18 02:50:52 
Posted By : Auctionguys
For some strange reason Tripadvisor won’t allow me to post a review simply of St. Mark’s Basilica but that’s what this is.
If you want to visit the Basilica (and you should) you have several choices.
1. Attend a service, which will be long and held in Italian (not unreasonably) Upside: it’s free! Downsides: you’ll need to find out the times of each service and you won’t be allowed to use a mobile or camera.
2. Buy expensive tickets online well in advance.
3. Join a long queue on the day and be prepared to wait and wait and wait, with no shelter from the sun
4. Roll up at any time when St Mark’s is open, buy a ticket for €7 for the Basilica Museum only (no queue), climb about sixty steps and you’ll find yourself inside the church with brilliant views of the mosaics on the ceiling of St Mark’s and an external terrace above the front door from which you have the very best views of the Campinale, the Piazza, and the Grand Canal. You can see and hear the music, hymns and sermons being played out down below and what’s more the Museum includes the four original bronze horses that (when I first visited the city) took pride of place on the roof before being replaced with replicas in the 1970s. The originals may well be Roman and originally from present-day Istanbul. This way of seeing St Mark’s is unique, relatively inexpensive, convenient, cool, and quiet. What’s not to like?
Guess which option I recommend.
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Posted On : 2022-06-26 10:47:25 
Posted By : Jessie_R
Great tour with excellent views. We were very pleased to find a tour that took us to the terrace of the basilica but we didn’t have to endure Doge’s Palace (had been before and was not my cup of tea). Elisabetta was excellent!
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Posted On : 2022-03-13 10:20:58
Posted By : Ruth A
Worth booking this tour to avoid the long queues and view the basilica and Square from different angles. Informative guide explained things we wouldn't have known about the history and construction of the building, etc.
Posted By : Shirley H
Delighted i booked this tour as i dont think you would get the real feel of the Basilica on your own,Our guide was a local who loved her job and you could feel the love she had for venice, We learned alot about the histort here also you can stay on after the tour is over and take a while on your own and to get some beauitful photos
Posted By : Gemma M
Would definantly recommend as seeing the queues to get in where huge we skipped all this and you get the added bonus of being able to go right up the top and see great views of st marks square.
Posted By : Virginia K
We loved our guide, Selene. She is a young spunky archaeologist and also works for the Church, so is passionate and knowledgeable about her subject. We loved the perspective from the upper floor and the proximity to the recently cleaned mosaic of Christ Pantocrator.
Posted By : Joseph G
Very interesting tour. Tour leader was very knowledgeable.
Posted By : Susan_M
We Enjoyed this tour very much, the time allowed to really look at things and especially the view from the Loggia over St Marks Square. I found the history very interesting and our tour guide was very helpful.
Posted By : Paulo_F
Alicia was punctual and kind. Furthermore, she really knew about her topic and provided us with a lot of interesting information, which made the tour an experience that we definitely recommend.
