Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Venice, Italy

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Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 3.3 km
Ascend 42 m
Descend 39 m

Experience Venice in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in VeniceIndividual Sights in Venice

Sight 1: San Giovanni Decollato

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The church of San Zan Degolà, which in the Venetian dialect is the abbreviation for San Giovanni Decollato, in English St John beheaded, is a Byzantine-Romanesque-style church and belltower in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Zan Degola (EN)

37 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 2: Natural History Museum

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The Giancarlo Ligabue Museum of Natural History of Venice, until 30 October 2019 Civic Museum of Natural History, is located inside the Fondaco dei Turchi, the important palace in Venice overlooking the Grand Canal.

Wikipedia: Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia Giancarlo Ligabue (IT)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di San Stae

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San Stae is a church in central Venice, in the sestiere of Santa Croce.

Wikipedia: San Stae (EN)

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Oriental Art Museum

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The Museum of Oriental Art of Venice is located inside Ca' Pesaro in the Santa Croce district, near Campo San Stae.

Wikipedia: Museo d'arte orientale (Venezia) (IT), Website

354 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa San Marcuola

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The church of San Marcuola is a religious building facing the Grand Canal and located in the sestiere of Cannaregio in Venice, Italy. It is dedicated to the saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus. Palazzo Memmo Martinengo Mandelli is a neighboring building.

Wikipedia: San Marcuola (EN)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Casinò di Venezia

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The Venice Casino was founded in 1638 and is recognized as the oldest gambling house in the world.

Wikipedia: Casinò di Venezia (IT)

5 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Ca' Vendramin Calergi - Casinò di Venezia

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Ca' Loredan Vendramin Calergi is a 15th-century palace on the Grand Canal in the sestiere (quarter) of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. It was commissioned by the patrician Loredan dynasty, namely Andrea Loredan, and paid for by Doge Leonardo Loredan, with construction starting in 1481. The architecturally distinguished building was the home of many prominent people through history and was the place where composer Richard Wagner died.

Wikipedia: Ca' Vendramin Calergi (EN)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: La Maddalena

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La Maddalena is a church in Venice, Italy, in the sestiere of Cannaregio.

Wikipedia: La Maddalena, Venice (EN)

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa di San Marziale

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San Marziale is a church building in the sestiere or neighborhood of Cannaregio in Venice.

Wikipedia: San Marziale (EN)

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Paolo Sarpi

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Paolo Sarpi

Paolo Sarpi was a Venetian historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, polymath and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict (1605–1607) and its war (1615–1617) with Austria over the Uskok pirates. His writings, frankly polemical and highly critical of the Catholic Church and its Scholastic tradition, "inspired both Hobbes and Edward Gibbon in their own historical debunkings of priestcraft." Sarpi's major work, the History of the Council of Trent (1619), was published in London in 1619; other works: a History of Ecclesiastical Benefices, History of the Interdict and his Supplement to the History of the Uskoks, appeared posthumously. Organized around single topics, they are early examples of the genre of the historical monograph.

Wikipedia: Paolo Sarpi (EN)

38 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa di Santa Fosca

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177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa di San Felice

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San Felice is a church in Venice, northern Italy, located in the sestiere (district) of Cannaregio. It faces the eponymous campo (square), across the Strada Nova.

Wikipedia: San Felice, Venice (EN)

166 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Ca' d'Oro

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The Ca' d'Oro or Palazzo Santa Sofia is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palaces in the city, its name means "golden house" due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls. Since 1927, it has been used as a museum, as the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti.

Wikipedia: Ca' d'Oro (EN), Website

126 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di Santa Sofia

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Santa Sofia is a church located in the sestiere (neighborhood) of Cannaregio in Venice, Italy. It should be distinguished from the palazzo Ca' d'Oro on the Grand Canal is also called the Palazzo Santa Sofia.

Wikipedia: Santa Sofia, Venice (EN)

439 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Ex chiesa Santa Caterina

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The "Marco Foscarini" high school is the oldest high school in Venice and one of the oldest in Italy, having been founded in 1807 by decree of Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of Italy and godson of Napoleon I, who established six high schools in as many cities of the kingdom of Italy. At its foundation it was known as the Lyceum-Boarding School of Santa Caterina, from the name of the former convent in which it is still located, in the Cannaregio district a few hundred meters from the shore of the Fondamente Nove, and as the I.R. Gymnasium of Santa Caterina from 1850 to 1867.

Wikipedia: Liceo Marco Foscarini (IT)

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Oratorio dei Crociferi

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Oratorio dei Crociferi

The Oratorio dei Crociferi is a small Roman Catholic chapel found across from the church of the Gesuiti in the sestiere of Cannaregio in Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: Oratorio dei Crociferi, Venice (EN)

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta

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The church of Santa Maria Assunta, commonly known as the church of the Jesuits, is a religious building in Venice, located in the Cannaregio district, in Campo dei Gesuiti, not far from the Fondamenta Nuove.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta detta I Gesuiti (IT)

488 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti

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San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti is an ancient church in the sestiere of Castello, Venice, northern Italy, with a facade facing a Rio of the same name. It now serves as the chapel of the Civic Hospital of Venice.

Wikipedia: San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti (EN)

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