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Venice History and Monuments

Venice History and Monuments

Venice · Italy

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Venice while focusing on its towers, monuments, civic buildings, gardens, and churches. You will see the Campanile di San Marco, Palazzo Ducale, Procuratie Vecchie, and a sequence of churches with different façades and architectural details. The route is worth taking for the chance to observe how public landmarks, memorials, and religious buildings shape the city’s visual history.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. St Mark's Campanile

    St Mark's Campanile

    Venice’s eighty-nine-metre warning tower became the city’s self-appointed master of the house.

  2. Piazzetta dei Leoncini

    Piazzetta dei Leoncini

    A former herb market, reshaped around two red-marble lions and the Marciana area's only public well.

  3. Doge's Palace

    Doge's Palace

    A fortress that became Venice’s seat of power, rebuilt into a palace of improbable lightness.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Column of Saint Mark

    Column of Saint Mark

    Two Byzantine columns where Venice staged power, gambling, and executions beside the lagoon.

  6. Royal Gardens of Venice

    Royal Gardens of Venice

    A royal garden reshaped by Napoleon, guarded by bridges, and restored after decades of neglect.

  7. Procuratie Vecchie

    Procuratie Vecchie

    A rent-producing public building rebuilt after fire, war, and a very Venetian argument about its architect.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.