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Historic sestieri (districts) of Venice
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Cannaregio is one six sestieri (districts) that make up Venice. For many travellers, it's the first part of Venice they enter, since Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, the main railway station, is here. Most of the district is residential, with slightly less tourists - and sights - compared to other parts of the city. However, for those interested in the history of Jewish life in Venice, the historic Jewish ghetto is within the district.
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Ghetto Ebraico di Venezia
While racial and ethnic neighborhoods had existed prior to the Venetian Ghetto, Venice's ghetto was the first "ghetto" (coming from a Venetian word for the Iron Foundry that had been on the site) and "ghetto" eventually came to mean any neighborhood that was made up of a single ethnic/racial group. Today, Jewish life is still very active in the ghetto, and elsewhere in Venice, and is home to five synagogues. Visiting on Saturdays or late Fridays (the Jewish Sabbath) will prove very fruitless because all shops, restaurants, and other Jewish places will be closed.
Museo Ebraico di Venezia
Objects related to the social life of the Jewish community, in two synagogues of the 16th century.
Ca' d'Oro museum
A collection of paintings and statues in a former palace from the 15th century. One of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Venice, sculptures, bronzes, paintings of Mantegna, Giorgione and Titian, Flemish and Dutch paintings.
Small oratory facing the old monastery dei Crociferi, painting circle by Palma the Younger.
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Nazareth
Also known as Church of the Scalzi (Chiesa degli Scalzi), being the seat in the city of the Discalced Carmelites religious order (scalzi in Italian means "barefoot"). Built in the mid 17th century to the designs of Baldassarre Longhena and completed in the last decades of that century.
With the grave and 10 paintings of Jacopo Robusti (Tintoretto) (1578-1594), and his tomb.
Chiesa dei Gesuiti
Also known as Church of Santa Maria Assunta, the current structure dates back to 1729.
The only Lutheran church in Venice.
Church of S. Michele
Cimitero di San Michele
Cemetery established following Napoleon Bonaparte's edict of 1804, part of the European circuit of monumental cemeteries. The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev, the Austrian physicist Christan Doppler, the American poet Ezra Pound, the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and the German-Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari are buried in San Michele Cemetery.
A perfect jewel box church, simple in form but ornamented with fine exterior marble facings.
Teatro Malibran was built in 1678, and is now part of La Fenice. Tickets for opera, ballet, and symphony performances are available at La Fenice, various locations around the city, or by phone +39 041 2424.
Casinò di Venezia
The oldest gambling house in the world, founded in 1638. The building dates back to the 15th century.
One of the last industries left in Venice, the Orsoni Furnace produces fine glass panels and mosaics using the same technique since 1888. The small factory can only be visited on certain dates.
Savory and sweet crepes
Warm and local atmosphere in this little osteria where they serve great Italian vintages by the glass. If you're adventurous, try their tasty tripe. Good music inside, some table by the canal in the summer. Reservations on evenings is essential.
Artfully presented Venetian cuisine
Warm canalside restaurant
Generous portions of pasta and seafood
Small wine bar with excellent selection, away from the tourist crowds. Outdoor seating next to one of the canals.
Another small bar, away from the main tourist arteries. Serves spritz, cocktails and beer with a view of the Cannaregio canal.
Venetian style rooms in the centre, 3 minutes from Rialto's Bridge.
Guests can choose between rooms with bathroom en suite (with hairdryer), and rooms with sharing bathroom on the floor (cheaper).
Close to Santa Lucia Train Station and the waterbus stops. 3 star hotel in an old convent offers accommodation starting at around €120-130 for a double room.
In the old town centre, close to the famous Rialto Bridge. This 13th-century palace was once home to Marco Polo. Décor is keeping with the period, and the rooms are utterly charming. Original wall frescoes from the 1400s adorn the hotel.
Three-star hotel in the Jewish Ghetto. A historic building belonged to a noble family, with 93 bedrooms (€95-194) capable to host any kind of guests.
Antico Palazzo Gottardi stands in Strada Nuova, between two buildings that look down onto the Canal Grande.
The hotel is in a quiet corner of Cannaregio district, 5 minutes walk from the Rialto Bridge.
Just off the Lista di Spagna by the Grand Canal, excellent access to the Station (Santa Lucia) and the waterbuses. Delicately appointed rooms from around €145.
Three-star accommodation with 90 bedrooms divided in single, double, twin, triple and family, 100 metres away from the train station of Santa Lucia.
Nice small hotel in good area with a few restaurants and bars.
In the centre, 10 minutes from Piazza San Marco, it was transformed into a hotel at the beginning of the 19th century and has been managed by the same family ever since.
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