What's Open in Venice on a Monday?

Gallerie dell'Accademia — Mon 08:15–14:00, Tue–Sun 08:15–19:15.

Museo di Storia Naturale — Jun–Oct 10:00–18:00; Nov–May 09:00–17:00. Usually closed Mondays; last admission is before closing. Check holiday exceptions.

Rialto Bridge — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

St Mark's Square — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

St Mark's Basilica — Mon–Sat 09:30–17:15, Sun 14:00–17:15, last entry 16:45. Free entry to the nave; museum, terraces, Treasury and Pala d'Oro are separately ticketed. Access can be closed without notice for high tide, state visits or religious functions.

Doge's Palace — Apr–Oct daily 08:30–19:00 (ticket office to 18:00); Nov–Mar daily 08:30–17:30 (ticket office to 16:30). Closed 25 December and 1 January. Extended hours during Carnival.

Libreria Acqua Alta — Daily roughly 09:00–20:00.

Murano.

Burano — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection — Daily 10:00–18:00; closed Tuesday.

The schedule above is what the MEVAYA planner builds for a Monday. It only contains stops that are open that day — the planner reads each stop's closing days and will not route you to a closed venue, even one marked as essential.

The day covers about 3.0 km on foot, with no public transport needed.

Only one stop needs booking: St Mark's Basilica. Everything else is free or sold at the door.

09:00–09:40 — Rialto Bridge. Four hundred years old, built of Istrian stone on twelve thousand timber piles, and for centuries the only way to cross the Grand Canal on foot. Free, always open, and completely different at seven in the morning. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

09:54–10:47 — St Mark's Square. Napoleon called it the drawing room of Europe. The basilica at one end, the campanile in the middle, arcades down both sides — and pigeons, water and marble everywhere. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

10:55–12:04 — St Mark's Basilica. Eight thousand square metres of gold mosaic above your head, and a floor of buckled marble that shows you the city sinking. The Pala d’Oro and the loggia with the bronze horses are separate small tickets and both worth it. Verified opening hours: Mon–Sat 09:30–17:15, Sun 14:00–17:15, last entry 16:45. Free entry to the nave; museum, terraces, Treasury and Pala d'Oro are separately ticketed. Access can be closed without notice for high tide, state visits or religious functions. Book ahead: this stop needs a reservation or a timed ticket.

12:19–12:41 — Traghetto crossing. A working gondola ferry that crosses the Grand Canal where there is no bridge, for about two euros. Venetians stand for the crossing. It is the same boat, the same oarsmen and the same water as a ninety-euro gondola ride, for a minute and a half.

12:41–13:41 — Lunch. The planner reserves time to eat right after Traghetto crossing, so the afternoon continues from where the morning ended instead of detouring for food.

13:57–15:18 — Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Tintoretto spent twenty-three years covering this building with more than sixty paintings, and they are still in the rooms he painted them for. Mirrors are handed out at the door so you can look at the ceilings without breaking your neck. Verified opening hours: Daily roughly 09:30–17:30.

15:30–17:02 — Ca' Rezzonico. A Grand Canal palazzo kept as an 18th-century Venetian house — ballroom, frescoed ceilings, period rooms — so you get the interior of the buildings you have been admiring from the water. Closed Tuesdays. Verified opening hours: Wed–Mon roughly 10:00–17:00 (seasonal); closed Tuesday. Extended hours during Carnival period.

17:13–17:59 — Campo Santa Margherita. The big student square in Dorsoduro — market stalls in the morning, children playing football in the afternoon, and the cheapest spritz in Venice in the evening. The closest thing the city has to normal life. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

Built by the MEVAYA planner from MEVAYA's curated Venice data. Opening hours were checked against official and independent sources in September 2026; the route, times and durations are the planner's own output, not estimates written by hand.