For almost a thousand years the fate of Venice was decided from this palace. It was everything at once: the doge’s home, parliament, government, law court, State archive and prison — the political heart of a republic that lasted longer than any other in the history of Europe.
What to see inside
- Doge's Palace — The facade on the Molo
- The Doge's Palace — The balcony on the Molo
- Doge's Palace — The Drunkenness of Noah and the Archangel Raphael
- Palazzo Ducale — Adam and Eve and the Archangel Michael
- Doge's Palace — The Façade on the Piazzetta
- Palazzo Ducale — The balcony on the Piazzetta
- Doge's Palace — The Judgement of Solomon and the Archangel Gabriel
- Palazzo Ducale — The Porta della Carta
- Palazzo Ducale — The facade on the Rio di Palazzo
- Doge's Palace — The Porta del Frumento
- Palazzo Ducale — The Museo dell'Opera
- Palazzo Ducale — Museo dell'Opera — The capital of the Sages
- Doge's Palace — Museo dell'Opera — The capital of the Trades
- Doge's Palace — Museo dell'Opera — The Capital of the Creation
- The Doge's Palace — Museo dell'Opera — The Capital of the Vices
- Doge's Palace — Museo dell'Opera — The Loggia and Bon's Signature
- Palazzo Ducale — The courtyard
- Palazzo Ducale — Courtyard — The two wellheads
- The Doge's Palace — Courtyard — The Scala dei Giganti (Staircase of the Giants)
- Doge's Palace — Courtyard — The Foscari Arch
- The Doge's Palace — Courtyard — The Porticato Foscari
- The Doge's Palace — Courtyard — The Clock Façade
- Doge's Palace — Courtyard — The Senators' Courtyard
- Palazzo Ducale — The loggia floor
- Doge's Palace — Loggia — The Lions' Mouths
- Palazzo Ducale — The Doge's Apartment
- Doge's Palace — Apartment — The Scala d'Oro
- Doge's Palace — Apartment — The Sala degli Scarlatti
- Doge's Palace — Apartment — The Sala dello Scudo
- Palazzo Ducale — Apartment — The Sala Grimani
- Doge's Palace — Apartment — The Sala Erizzo and the Sala degli Stucchi
- Doge's Palace — Apartment — The Sala dei Filosofi
- Palazzo Ducale — Apartment — The Udienza and Scudieri rooms
- Doge's Palace — From the Atrio Quadrato to the Anticollegio
- Doge's Palace — The Atrio Quadrato
- Doge's Palace — The Hall of the Four Doors
- Doge's Palace — The four doors and their guardians
- Doge's Palace — Titian's Doge Antonio Grimani
- Doge's Palace — Tiepolo's Neptune
- The Doge's Palace — The Anticollegio Hall
- Doge's Palace — Tintoretto's four canvases in the Anticollegio
- The Doge's Palace — Veronese's Rape of Europa
- Palazzo Ducale — The Sala del Collegio
- Palazzo Ducale — Collegio — The tribunal of the Signoria
- Doge's Palace — Collegio — Veronese's Ceiling
- Doge's Palace — Collegio — The Lepanto Canvas
- Doge's Palace — Collegio — Tintoretto's doges
- Doge's Palace — The Hall of the Senate
- Palazzo Ducale — Senate — The ceiling of Cristoforo Sorte
- The Doge's Palace — Senate — The two clocks
- Palazzo Ducale — Senate — The walls of the doges
- Palazzo Ducale — The Council of Ten
- Doge's Palace — The Hall of the Council of Ten
- Palazzo Ducale — The Sala della Bussola
- Doge's Palace — The Armoury
- Palazzo Ducale — Armeria — The Gattamelata Room
- Doge's Palace — Armoury — The Hall of the King of France
- Doge's Palace — Armoury — The Morosini Room
- Palazzo Ducale — Armeria — The forbidden weapons and the executioner's sword
- Doge's Palace — Armoury — The Torresella
- Palazzo Ducale — The Sala del Maggior Consiglio
- Doge's Palace — The Liagò and Rizzo's statues
- Palazzo Ducale — The Sala della Quarantia Civil Vecchia
- Palazzo Ducale — The Sala del Guariento
- Doge's Palace — Tintoretto's Paradise
- Doge's Palace — The Frieze of the Doges and the Black Cloth
- Doge's Palace — The ceiling of the Maggior Consiglio
- The Doge's Palace — The stories on the walls of the Great Council
- Doge's Palace — The Sala dello Scrutinio
- Palazzo Ducale — The Quarantia Civil Nuova and the andito
- Palazzo Ducale — The Scrutinio ceiling
- Palazzo Ducale — The battle paintings of the Scrutinio
- Doge's Palace — The Morosini Arch and the Last Judgement
- Doge's Palace — The last forty-two doges
- Doge's Palace — The Quadreria
- Doge's Palace — The Bridge of Sighs and the Prisons
- Doge's Palace — Inside the Bridge of Sighs
- Doge's Palace — The cells of the New Prisons
- Doge's Palace — The Hall of the Censors
- Doge's Palace — The Avogaria and the Sala dello Scrigno
- Doge's Palace — The Sala della Milizia da Mar
- The Doge's Palace — The Secret Itineraries
- Doge's Palace — Secret Itineraries — The Pozzi
- Doge's Palace — Secret Itineraries — The Secret Chancery
- Doge's Palace — Secret Itineraries — The Torture Chamber
- Doge's Palace — Secret Itineraries — The Piombi
- Palazzo Ducale — Secret Itineraries — Casanova's escape
- Palazzo Ducale — Secret Itineraries — The Hall of the Inquisitors
- Doge's Palace — Secret itineraries — The Room of the Three Heads
- Palazzo Ducale — The doge's hidden treasures
- Doge's Palace — Hidden Treasures — The Foscara Loggia
- Doge's Palace — Hidden treasures — Titian's St Christopher
- Doge's Palace — Hidden Treasures — The Doge's Chapel
- Palazzo Ducale — Hidden Treasures — The Antichiesetta