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Doge's Palace

Doge’s Palace audio guide

The Doge’s Palace from the Bacino: portico, openwork loggia and lozenge-patterned wall — the ’upside-down’ structure

Visit the Doge’s Palace with the Calletta audio guide: 94 stops in visiting order, from the façades to the halls of the main floors, with redrawn, numbered floor plans.

Open the entry in Calletta and follow the stops in visiting order: the voice tells you what is in front of you and the text lights up word by word. The numbered plans show you where you are.

Floor plans

Doge’s Palace: the courtyard and loggia floor, with numbered rooms
Doge’s Palace: the courtyard and loggia floor, with numbered rooms
Doge’s Palace: the second floor, from the Doge’s Apartment to the Chamber of the Great Council and the Chamber of the Scrutinio
Doge’s Palace: the second floor, from the Doge’s Apartment to the Chamber of the Great Council and the Chamber of the Scrutinio
Doge’s Palace: the third floor, from the Four Doors Room to the Senate Chamber, the Council of Ten and the Armoury
Doge’s Palace: the third floor, from the Four Doors Room to the Senate Chamber, the Council of Ten and the Armoury

The stops of the visit

  1. The facade on the Molo
  2. The balcony on the Molo
  3. The Drunkenness of Noah and the Archangel Raphael
  4. Adam and Eve and the Archangel Michael
  5. The Façade on the Piazzetta
  6. The balcony on the Piazzetta
  7. The Judgement of Solomon and the Archangel Gabriel
  8. The Porta della Carta
  9. The facade on the Rio di Palazzo
  10. The Porta del Frumento
  11. The Museo dell'Opera
  12. Museo dell'Opera — The capital of the Sages
  13. Museo dell'Opera — The capital of the Trades
  14. Museo dell'Opera — The Capital of the Creation
  15. Museo dell'Opera — The Capital of the Vices
  16. Museo dell'Opera — The Loggia and Bon's Signature
  17. The courtyard
  18. Courtyard — The two wellheads
  19. Courtyard — The Scala dei Giganti (Staircase of the Giants)
  20. Courtyard — The Foscari Arch
  21. Courtyard — The Porticato Foscari
  22. Courtyard — The Clock Façade
  23. Courtyard — The Senators' Courtyard
  24. The loggia floor
  25. Loggia — The Lions' Mouths
  26. The Doge's Apartment
  27. Apartment — The Scala d'Oro
  28. Apartment — The Sala degli Scarlatti
  29. Apartment — The Sala dello Scudo
  30. Apartment — The Sala Grimani
  31. Apartment — The Sala Erizzo and the Sala degli Stucchi
  32. Apartment — The Sala dei Filosofi
  33. Apartment — The Udienza and Scudieri rooms
  34. From the Atrio Quadrato to the Anticollegio
  35. The Atrio Quadrato
  36. The Hall of the Four Doors
  37. The four doors and their guardians
  38. Titian's Doge Antonio Grimani
  39. Tiepolo's Neptune
  40. The Anticollegio Hall
  41. Tintoretto's four canvases in the Anticollegio
  42. Veronese's Rape of Europa
  43. The Sala del Collegio
  44. Collegio — The tribunal of the Signoria
  45. Collegio — Veronese's Ceiling
  46. Collegio — The Lepanto Canvas
  47. Collegio — Tintoretto's doges
  48. The Hall of the Senate
  49. Senate — The ceiling of Cristoforo Sorte
  50. Senate — The two clocks
  51. Senate — The walls of the doges
  52. The Council of Ten
  53. The Hall of the Council of Ten
  54. The Sala della Bussola
  55. The Armoury
  56. Armeria — The Gattamelata Room
  57. Armoury — The Hall of the King of France
  58. Armoury — The Morosini Room
  59. Armeria — The forbidden weapons and the executioner's sword
  60. Armoury — The Torresella
  61. The Sala del Maggior Consiglio
  62. The Liagò and Rizzo's statues
  63. The Sala della Quarantia Civil Vecchia
  64. The Sala del Guariento
  65. Tintoretto's Paradise
  66. The Frieze of the Doges and the Black Cloth
  67. The ceiling of the Maggior Consiglio
  68. The stories on the walls of the Great Council
  69. The Sala dello Scrutinio
  70. The Quarantia Civil Nuova and the andito
  71. The Scrutinio ceiling
  72. The battle paintings of the Scrutinio
  73. The Morosini Arch and the Last Judgement
  74. The last forty-two doges
  75. The Quadreria
  76. The Bridge of Sighs and the Prisons
  77. Inside the Bridge of Sighs
  78. The cells of the New Prisons
  79. The Hall of the Censors
  80. The Avogaria and the Sala dello Scrigno
  81. The Sala della Milizia da Mar
  82. The Secret Itineraries
  83. Secret Itineraries — The Pozzi
  84. Secret Itineraries — The Secret Chancery
  85. Secret Itineraries — The Torture Chamber
  86. Secret Itineraries — The Piombi
  87. Secret Itineraries — Casanova's escape
  88. Secret Itineraries — The Hall of the Inquisitors
  89. Secret itineraries — The Room of the Three Heads
  90. The doge's hidden treasures
  91. Hidden Treasures — The Foscara Loggia
  92. Hidden treasures — Titian's St Christopher
  93. Hidden Treasures — The Doge's Chapel
  94. Hidden Treasures — The Antichiesetta

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