Doge's Palace map, entrance and route

Address and entrance

• Address: San Marco 1, 30124 Venezia. Open on the map.
• Entrance: the Porta del Frumento, under the portico of the 14th-century façade on the Piazzetta San Marco.
• Exit: the Porta della Carta, between the palace and St Mark's Basilica.

Getting there by vaporetto

From the Santa Lucia railway station, according to MUVE:

• Line 1 to Vallaresso or San Zaccaria.
• Line 2 to Giardinetti.
• Line 5.1 or 4.1 to San Zaccaria.

The route inside

The standard visit follows this order:

• Museo dell'Opera.
• The courtyard and the Loggia on the first floor, where the Doge's Apartments are.
• The institutional chambers on the first and second floors, including the Chamber of the Great Council.
• The Armoury and the Picture Gallery.
• The prisons, reached across the Bridge of Sighs.

Room by room on the rooms and paintings page; the prisons on the prisons and Bridge of Sighs page.

Services and accessibility

• Info desk, ticket office, free cloakroom, toilets, lift, Baby Pit-stop room, museum shop and café.
• The regular route is fully accessible, with accessible toilets on the ground floor. The Secret Itineraries, the prisons and the Armoury are not accessible.
• Luggage: suitcases and bags over 1 linear metre (three sides added together) are not allowed and can't be left at the cloakroom.
• Bags and backpacks may be checked at the entrance.