Canal Grande - San Marco

From Piazzale Roma you can take vaporetto line 1 and go throughout the Grand Canal to Piazza San Marco. It takes about an hour.     

From Piazza San Marco you can visit the picturesque Bacino Orseolo (Orseolo Basin), parking gondolas, and from here go toward Campo San Luca. At Campo San Luca you can have a break  at a coffee from Marchini, famous Venetian pastries, and then proceed in the direction of Rialto.     

Rialto - Campo San Polo - Campo San Tomà

Visit the Rialto's market where Venetians buy  the fruit , vegetable and fish.
In Erbaria, where once was the wholesale market, now you can find  local places to eat or taste an aperitif, with a splendid view over the Grand Canal.     

From Rialto continue to Campo San Polo,  and  than cross the street Saoneri. You will arrive at the museum Casa di Carlo Goldoni (San Polo 2794 - 30125 Venice).    

Infomation

• T. +39 041 2759325
• www.museiciviciveneziani.it

From Casa Goldoni proceed to San Tomà and from there to Campo dei Frari.

Chiesa dei Frari e Scuola Grande San Rocco

In the Campo dei Frari you can visit the beautiful church and the Scuola Grande San Rocco, which houses many works of Tintoretto.     

From Campo San Rocco proceed in the direction of Piazzale Roma and from there in a few minutes you can reach the hotel. 

Il Ghetto di Venezia

From Piazzale Roma go in the direction of Santa Lucia train station and from there continue along the Lista di Spagna and Campo San Geremia.     

Cross the bridge of Guglie  and reache the other side of the canal. Turn left along the Fondamenta Pescheria. After a few meters on the right, found a sottoportico, which leads in calle del Forno. So, you are at the beginning of  the Ghetto of Venice.     
Here you shoul  observe the houses, very high and crowded. You find out why ...     

In the Ghetto, you can visit the synagogues and the Jewish Museum.     

The Museum is open every day except Saturdays and Jewish holidays, December 25, January 1 and May 1.

Opening hours

• from October 1 to May 31, from 10:00 to 16:00.
• from June 1 to September 30, from 10:00 to 19:00.    
• Guided tours at synagogues are done every half hour starting at 10.30.

Information

• T. +39  041 715359
• www.ghetto.it

Campo Sant'Alvise

From the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo cross the bridge and turn right into the Fondamenta Ormesini.
It is a very poplar, typical Venetian area.

Turn left at Calle de la Malvasia, and then take calle del Capital and cross the wooden bridge. You will reach Campo Sant'Alvise with the splendid church.
The facade is simple and essential, with the portal stone of Istria.     

Inside, three paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo made between 1737 and 1740.

Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto

From Campo Sant'Alvise, cross again the wooden bridge and the Calle del Capitelo. Walk until the Fontamenta Sensa. Here turn left and walk down the fondamenta until it encountered Calle Loredan on your left.    
Take the end and turn right at Calle Larga Piave. From here you will see the Church of the Madonna dell'Orto.    

The facade and the cloister are of the second half of the fifteenth century, the statues of the early sixteenth century.    
In the same period, the bell tower dome, completed in 1503.    

Inside are many  works of extraordinary painters and sculptors: Jacopo Tintoretto, buried in the right aisle and whose bust is the work of wood by Napoleone Martinuzzi, Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, Giovanni di Paris Bordone, Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Tiziano Vecellio, Giovanni Bellini, and many others. 

Campo dei Mori

After visited the church, we suggest you to take the fondamenta and after a few meters, to cross the bridge on the right and you will arrive to the Campo dei Mori.    

Campo dei Mori is famous because here are the house where Jacopo Tintoretto lived and the home of the Moors, where the field takes its name.    

On the corner of the building known as Palace of the Camel, on your left, you will notice the beautiful statue of Tre mori (three moors).    
The tradition tells that the Tre mori were three brothers Mastella, originally from the Peloponnese.

Here is also Palazzo Martelli, renamed Palazzo Cammello (Palace of the Camel) because of a bas-relief depicting the animal.    

The legend says that the palace, starting in 1757, was haunted by ghosts. For several days and at the same time, the bells inside the rooms seem to play simultaneously, causing the terror of the inhabitants of the palace. 
The chaplain of San Fantin camed, made an exorcism and everything ended.

Chiesa dell'Abbazia della Misericordia

From Palazzo Martelli take the Calle Larga and go straight to the Fondamenta della Misericordia.
Here turn left and walk along the foundation to the end.

Before the bridge look at your left. You will see the residential buildings and the School of Santa Maria della Misericordia. Here is also the Church of th Abbazia della Misericordia.     

The little church, which originally had a Byzantine structure, is in Venetian Gothic style.

Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Go bak to the fondamenta della misericordia, cross the bridge and you will reach Fondamenta San Felice. Follow it all up to return to the main street, the Strada Nova.     

Turn left, pass the bridge of San Felice and continue to the campo of the Santi Apostoli.
To avoid the crowds, continue straight, crossing the entire campo of the Santi Apostoli and continue along the campo behind the church.     

Cross the square diagonally and then go down the street that you will find in front of you.

At the end, turn right and then immediately left. You will emerge in the campiello Cason. Continue walking and take the calletta in front of you. Cross the bridge, remembering to touch the iron hooks that are about 2.5 meters high on your left. The Venetians believe they bring a good luck.     

After the bridge is Campo San Canciano. Continue straight and at the end of the road turn left.
There is Santa Maria Nuova.     

On your right is the splendid church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli.     
Known to be an appearance several times in the movie Bread and Tulips (nearby the workshops was the protagonist), is truly a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and magnificent.     

The inside is decorated in marble, the work of Pietro Lombardo with his sons Tullio and Antonio.

Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo

Santa Maria Nova is the last area of the Cannaregio district. Going to the Fondamenta del Piovan and the calle Larga Giacinto Gallina it comes in SS. Giovanni e Paolo, in the district of Castello, the tail of the fish.     

Coming from the bridge, on the left is the Scuola Grande di San Marco now home of the Hospital (Ospdale Civile di Venezia).   
In front of you will see the extraordinary chiesa di SS. Giovanni e Paolo.
At the center is the monument al Colleoni, the only equestrian statue in Venice ...
In Venice there are two equestrian monuments, but the monument to Vittorio Emanuele in San Zaccaria  Venetians don’t except, because does not belong the history of the Serenissima Republic of Venice! It is considered abusive :)

The church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo (San Zanipolo to the Venetians) is among the most impressive medieval buildings in the city. Has the highest tripartite facade, a huge central rose window and two smaller lateral eyes.     

The lower part of the facade has six large niches that hold some Gothic tombs.
The portal is adorned by six marble columns.     
Three kiosks placed on top of the facade are dedicated to the holy Dominican St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Dominic and St. Peter Martyr.

Meravigliose anche le fiancate della chiesa che si affacciano sul campo, alla base delle quali si può ancora vedere com'era fatta la pavimentazione della Venezia medievale.

Here are many works of famous painters and sculptors: Giovanni Bellini, Pietro Lorenzetti, Pietro Liberi, Leandro da Bassano, il Padovanino, Vivarini, Palma il Giovane, Guido Reni, Pietro Lombardo.

La leggenda della pietra rossa in Corte Nova

From Campo San Giovanni ePaolo continue to the Barbaria delle Tole. At the beginning, on your left you will see all the apses of the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, with elegant and slender Gothic windows.     

A little further on, is the Chiesa dell'Ospedaletto, a beautiful example of baroque.

At the end of Barbaria delle Tole you will arrive in a small campo. Cross it and continue walking holding the right.
After Calle Zen, pass the bridge of Santa Giustina and you will reach Campo Santa Giustina.

Cross the bridge and the Calle Fontego, turn left and immediately right onto calle Zorzi. Continue straight and you will arrive in Corte Nova.    
Have a look on the ground: you will see a red marble stone that the inhabitants of the area are careful not to trample.   

The legend says that during the plague of 1630 the Corte Nova had been spared from the wounds and that the red stone witnesses to the place where the plague is stopped through the intervention of the Virgin Mary.     

In fact, raising her head before entering the sottoportico, an inscription reads: Blessed Virgin Mary of Health, which often replicate serbaste immune this court ...     

Unfortunately, the sottoportico was left to itself, after the death of Mr Alfredo who for years devoted himself to the preservation of books, now stolen, and periodic repaintings. 

La Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni

Go back in Corte Nova. Take the bridge on your right and walk along the Fondamenta San Giorgio degli Schiavoni.     
Perhaps you will find vaguely familiar environment. This is also one of the places from the movie Bread and Tulips.     

Cross over all the fondamenta until the next bridge that leads you in calle dei Furlani. At the end of the bridge on the left, is the Scuola of San Giorgio of the Schiavoni.     

The school is also known by the name of Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio and Trifone. School is a home of a beautiful art gallery that keeps the cycle of Carpaccio.     

Trade relations between Venice and the Dalmatian were very close and many Dalmatian, called Schiavoni by the Venetians, moved in together within the city confraternity under the protection of their Saints George, Tryphon and Jerome.     
In early 1500, the Brotherhood erected the present school, which houses the paintings of Carpaccio dedicated to the history of the patron saints of the Dalmatians.     

L'Arsenale

From the school, take the Fondamenta dei Furlani and find Salizada Sant'Antonin.
Continue left along the entire Salizada and find Salizada Pignater on the left. Go across and then turn in the second calletta on the right. At the end of calletta turn left into Calle del Pestrin and at the end turn right. Cross the iron bridge and continue walking (the church of San Martino must be on your right). You will arrive  straight to the Arsenale.    

Heart of Venetian naval power from the twelfth century, the Arsenal covers a huge area in the city.

In the past, the Arsenal could produce 300 ships a year, almost one a day, thanks to the work of about 17,000 workers (the arsenalotti).     

Today, the arsenal is used only in small part for shipbuilding activities, especially as the site of exposure.

For a history of the Arsenale, we recommend the very interesting book by Filippo Maria Paladini, Arsenale e museo storico navale di Venezia. Mare, lavoro e uso pubblico della storia, Il Poligrafo, 2008.

Fondamente Nuove

• vaporetto LN: Murano, Mazzorbo, Burano, Torcello

From Piazzale Roma you can reach the Fondamenta Nuove vaporetto (line 41) or on foot. 

Walking from Piazzale Roma to Fondamente Nuove:
From Piazzale Roma go to the train station and from there on long Lista di Spagna and then into the Strada Nuova area until the Santi Apostoli. 

In the Holy Apostles, turn left and  reach the area of the Jesuits.From there in a few minutes you will reach the Fondamenta Nuove.    

From Fonamente Nuove take the line LN (Lagunari lines) which goes  to the three islands: Murano, Burano and Torcello.    

Usually a visit to the island lasts one day.    

At Torcello don't miss to see the throne of Attila.

At Burano you must try the famous bussolai buraneli, delicious sweet typical of the island.

At Murano, well, the choice is yours. Only the embarrassment will remain cautious.