DOGE’S PALACE TICKETS: WHERE AND HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKET TO SKIP THE LINE

Doge’s Palace tickets: To visit the most important building in Venice you have to plan your visit well in advance and first you need to book the tickets, to avoid queuing at the entrance.

Often, when I pass in front of Palazzo Ducale I see an interministerial row of people waiting to buy the ticket. There is no time of year when there is not a crowd of tourists waiting and every time I wonder why they have not booked priority access.
In fact, I think that they also ask for it, especially when they see the visitors who have reserved the entrance pass in front and immediately go to the entrance and start the visit to the Palazzo Ducale without unnecessary waiting.

Here, then, all the information to book tickets for the Doges’s Palace in Venice.

Doges’s Palace tickets

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UFFIZI TICKETS: WHERE AND HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKET TO SKIP THE LINE

Uffizi tickets: To visit the Uffizi Gallery organization is what you need, and if you buy in advance the tickets in order to avoid the endless line at the entrance, your visit will start off on the right foot.
The advantage of booking tickets is to have more time to admire the rooms and especially the most important works.

I wrote a post about the Uffizi’s masterpieces, now I explain how to book your Uffizi tickets.

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Water and light: symbols of Venice. This is the very reason we find them inside the Olivetti Showroom, a vintage dream in the historical heart of Piazza San Marco.

There’s a rare gem in the middle of Piazza San Marco in Venice, which deserves to get more attention. A true architectural beauty built in the Nineteenth Century that attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world, year after year.

It is the Olivetti Showroom, a space that showcases some of the iconic machineries and office tools that were designed and built by the renowned brand from Ivrea. Among them, “Lettera 22” is a special portable typewriter by Marcello Nizzoli, which is also exposed at the MOMA, in New York, pairing up with many other Olivetti cult devices.

A brief history of the Olivetti Showroom

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Museo del Risorgimento

GENOA WHERE TO GO: THE BEST MUSEUMS

Genoa is full of history, traditions as well as museums.
After telling you which museums you can’t miss in Genoa, in this post I want to give you some advice on the least known and unusual museums.

To make this 24-hour tour, I bought the Genoa Museum Card, that is to say to easiest way to enter the city’s most interesting museums and monuments.
At the end of the post you’ll find the video with all the stages of my journey, too.

Genoa, where to go

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BARCELONA MUSEUMS: THOSE YOU MUST SEE

Barcelona museums. Which ones to visit and which ones to include in the itinerary for a visit to the city?
When I wrote the post about What to see in Barcelona discovering Gaudí’s works, I inserted a series of museums you must see whichever itinerary you choose.
If you are looking for inspirations for what to see during your next trip to Barcelona, you’re in the right place. Here is where to go.

Barcelona museums

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