3 days in Venice
A complete 3-day Venice itinerary with 9 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.
- Days
- 3
- Places
- 9
- Time in transit
- 110 min
Why the stops are in this order
Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.
This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.
Across all 3 days this route spends 110 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 9 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.
Day 1
Central Station
09:00–09:00
32 min by public transport
Doge's Palace
09:32–11:32 2 hr
Lunch
12:00–12:30 30 min
Saint Mark's Basilica
12:30–14:00 1 hr 30 min
2 min walk
St Mark's Campanile
14:02–15:02 1 hr
Day 2
Central Station
09:00–09:00
33 min by public transport
Bridge of Sighs
09:33–10:03 30 min
16 min walk
Ca' Rezzonico
10:19–12:19 2 hr
Lunch
12:19–12:49 30 min
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
12:49–14:04 1 hr 15 min
Day 3
Central Station
09:00–09:00
24 min walk
Campo Santo Stefano
09:24–10:09 45 min
3 min walk
Palazzo Mocenigo "Ca' Nova"
10:12–11:12 1 hr
Lunch
12:00–12:30 30 min
Clock Tower
12:30–13:15 45 min
Make it your trip
The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.
Open the Venice plan