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If your wheelchair cannot negotiate the step directly without encountering obstacles by taking lift (72x100 cm). A platform lift goes from the first to you can enter the palace from Porta della Carta (on the No. 2 vaporetto and getting off at the San Marco the second floor where the temporary exhibitions are the side immediately after the basilica) which will take Giardinetti stop. However we suggest you follow our held. You are advised to phone +39 041.2405211 you to the palace courtyard with the monumental route which takes in some stunning sights. beforehand. Giants’ Staircase. On the ground floor, there are accessible toilets, a cafeteria, and a bookshop. A lift [1] Take the No. 1 vaporetto (accessible) from [4] Just below the Torre dell’Orologio (Clock Tower), will take you to the first and second floors of the Piazzale Roma (bus terminus) or Ferrovia (railway one of the seminal buildings of the Venetian palace with the splendid council chambers and the station) and continue down the full length of the Renaissance (not accessible), you will find the entrance Doge’s Apartments. Canal Grande to San Marco Vallaresso stop. to the Mercerie, the famous shopping thoroughfare running from Piazza San Marco to Rialto. [8] Leaving the Doge’s Palace via the Porta della [2] Going down the alley opposite the landing stage - Carta, you can admire the soaring Campanile di San Calle Vallaresso - you will come to Campo San Moisè [5] From here you can go all the way to the Church of Marco. You can access it from the main entrance and the Church of San Moisè with its magnificent San Zulian without encountering obstacles. with the help of the staff (tel. n. 041.52 240 64) who baroque façade and thirteenth-century bell tower. The church houses works by Palma il Giovane. There will provide assistance for climbing the steps (4 steps There is one step at both the entrances of the church. are two entrances to the church: the main entrance of 17 cm and one of 14 cm) that lead to the lift that has two low steps while the side entrance has one will ake you to admire one of the city’s most splendid [3] If you turn right, rather than left, off Calle step only. panoramas. Vallaresso you will enter Piazza San Marco via an arcade known as the Ala Napoleonica. You can [6] Going back to the Piazza, you can visit St Mark’s [9] The nearby quay has a splendid view of St Mark’s enjoy a spectacular view from here but will need to Basilica. The most accessible entrance is the left Basin. If you keep going (left) you will come to one of go down three steps to reach the piazza. To enter entrance, although there is a small step (about 5 Venice’s oldest bridges, Ponte della Paglia. Going up the piazza without encountering barriers you’ll need cm/2 in). Upon request a mobile platform can be the ramps you can see the famous Ponte dei Sospiri to leave the arcade, turn left into the narrow Calle used. (Bridge of Sighs), a covered walkway made from del Salvadego and keep going until you reach Bacino Inside the basilica, there are a number of difficulties Istrian stone along which prisoners were led from Orseolo (a picturesque “parking lot” for gondolas). in addition to the uneven floor: the Prisons to the chambers of the State Inquisitors Keep right and you will reach the piazza via the • access to the Pala d’Oro altarpiece involves four for trial. arcades of the Procuratie Vecchie. Piazza San Marco fairly steep steps. After the bridge, turn left into Calle dei Albanesi has been the beating heart of the city’s political and • the Treasury is in a side room with two relatively which will take you to the pretty little Piazza di religious life for more than a thousand years and is low steps at the entrance and one step on the San Filippo e Giacomo and the romantic cloister of the symbol right and one on the left inside the room itself. Sant’Apollonia. of the city itself. • to visit the museum, you need to contact the staff In addition to the Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace) the to use the lift to the second floor and the two Piazza San Marco Museums circuit includes: platform lifts making the entire route accessible. the Museo Correr, the National Archaeological For information on opening times here: Museum and the Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca [7] When you leave the basilica, keep left and you www.visitmuve.it Marciana. The entrance for visitors with impaired will come to the Doge’s Palace. www.basilicasanmarco.it mobility is on Calle del Salvadego. You are advised to The public entrance is via Porta del Frumento (a step Direzione Affari Istituzionali Accessible Venice Fontego dei Tedeschi Rialto Bridge wc C. Rialto Ceria 5 Campo San Luca 1 Palazzo Calle Stagneri Campo Manin Dolfin Manin Scala del Bovolo Palazzo 4 Merceria Bembo Teatro Goldoni Scuola Grande Corte Campo San Salvador CANAL GRANDE Teatro S. Teodoro C. delle Acque Palazzi C. di Mezzo S. Salvador Mercerie C. Grimani Farsetti e 3 C. dei Fabbri Palazzo Campo San Bartolomeo Loredan Ponte dei Grimani Bareteri Rialto Bridge C. S. Luca S. Luca C. delle Ballotte Salizz. S. Luca C. del Magazen C. Goldoni Rialto Campo Manin Venezia Mestre C. dei Fuseri dei C. C. Ungheria San Marco 4136 Via Cardinal Massaia 45 30124 Venezia 30174 Mestre Palazzo 2 Contarini T 041 2748144 T 041 9655440 del Bovolo F 041 9655432 [email protected] | www.veneziacittapertutti.it 0 50 m 100 m 200 m in collaboration with: map made by: accessible area wc toilette Material distributed free Updated in April 2016 Accessible Venice Rialto [1] At Piazzale Roma (bus terminus) or Ferrovia go down Calle del Forno, the alley in front of made difficult by the presence of four steps. (railway station) take the No. 1 or No. 2 boat you, then turn right into Calle del Teatro which In the secondary entrance (Salizada S. Todaro) (accessible) along the Canal Grande to Rialto passes in front of the Teatro Goldoni dedicated there is a step. The first floor with concert rooms (stop A or B), the group of islands forming the to the famous Venetian playwright who staged can only be reached via a flight of stairs. city’s historic heart. In fact, the city was known his masterpieces describing 18th century life in Continuing down Calle Larga Mazzini you will as Rivoaltus, or “high bank”, until AD 1000, Venice in this theatre. The theatre is accessible reach Le Mercerie, the famous shopping streets when it took the name Venice. to wheelchairs from a side entrance where there linking Rialto and Piazza San Marco. is an elevator and a stair lift. You can proceed down the calle for 200 m [2] Follow the Fondamenta for a short stretch Immediately after the theatre on the left is Calle without obstacles as far as Ponte Bareteri. and turn left into Calle del Carbon just before Bembo, a narrow alleyway which will take you Ca’ Farsetti, a 12th century Byzantine palace, back to the Riva del Carbon on the Canal Grande [5] If you turn left at the end of Calle Larga one of the oldest in Venice and now home to near the No. 1 landing stage . Mazzini, you come to Campo San Bartolomeo the City Council . To pass to points 4 and 5 of the itinerary with a statue of Carlo Goldoni in the middle.