St. Mark's Square & the Campanile

You can visit St. Mark's Square at any time.  To visit the Basilica or the Campanile, you will need to purchase tickets.  The official website to purchase those is here:  Tickets to St. Mark's

I highly recommend reserving tickets to visit both, especially the Campanile!  You can see beautiful views of Venice up there.  The Campanile is one of my very favorite things about Venice.  Here is a video of our most recent trip to St. Mark's Square:  St. Mark's Square  Campanile tickets are only 15 euro.  A complete ticket to the Basilica is 30 euro.

The google maps location of St. Mark's Square is here:  St. Mark's Square

The Campanile

The Moors strike the bell on the hour

The Clock Tower - notice the Winged Lion of Venice

My daughter and I on St. Mark's Square in March of 2025

views from the Campanile

My daughter and I on the Campanile

The bells

View from the Campanile at the moors on top of the Clock Tower

Looking down on St. Mark's Basilica

The Doge's Palace

St. Mark's Square at night

The original Four Horses of Venice, inside the Basilica museum

The duplicate Four Horses of Venice out on the Loggia of the Basilica

The Winged Lion of Venice

Eating on St. Mark's Square

It is expensive to eat at one of the cafes on St. Mark's Square, but I still recommend it for the experience.  Since St. Mark's is famous for being infested with pigeons, we were served our personal-sized pizzas with a pigeon-cover on it to prevent our lunch from being stolen.  During the summer months, orchestras play at these outdoor cafes.  When my daughter and I were visiting in March of 2025, there weren't orchestras playing.  We did enjoy our meal, though.

We ate at the Gran Caffe Quadri

The pigeon covers protected our pizzas from being stolen by pigeons

The pizzas were 22 euro each, and the bottled water was 10 euro