Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Venice, Italy

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Number of sights 41 sights
Distance 9 km
Ascend 121 m
Descend 118 m

Experience Venice in Italy in a whole new way with our free 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: Sant'Andrea della Zirada

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Sant'Andrea della Zirada is a church and a monastery in Venice, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Andrea della Zirada (EN)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa del Nome di Gesù

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The Church of the Name of Jesus is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the Santa Croce district, between the first stretch of the Ponte della Libertà and the church of Sant'Andrea della Zirada.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Nome di Gesù (IT)

581 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di San Simeon Piccolo

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San Simeone Piccolo is a church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy. From across the Grand Canal it faces the railroad terminal serving as entrypoint for most visitors to the city.

Wikipedia: San Simeone Piccolo (EN)

321 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Giardini Papadopoli

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Giardino Papadopoli is a terraced garden filled with shade trees in the Venetian sestiere of Santa Croce, between the Venezia Santa Lucia train station and Piazzale Roma.

Wikipedia: Giardini Papadopoli (EN)

202 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: San Nicola da Tolentino

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The Chiesa di San Nicolò da Tolentino, commonly known as the Tolentini, is a church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy. It lies in a Campo of the same name and along the Rio dei Tolentini, near the Giardino Papadopoli.

Wikipedia: Tolentini, Venice (EN)

888 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 6: Santa Teresa

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The church of the Terese or church of Santa Teresa is a church in the city of Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district, near the church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, of which it is a subsidiary.

Wikipedia: Chiesa delle Terese (Venezia) (IT)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: San Nicolò dei Mendicoli

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San Nicolò dei Mendicoli is a church, which is located in the sestiere of Dorsoduro in Venice.

Wikipedia: San Nicolò dei Mendicoli (EN)

382 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: San Raffaele Arcangelo

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The Chiesa dell'Angelo Raffaele is a church in Venice, northern Italy, located in the Dorsoduro sestiere. San Raffaele Arcangelo church is one of the only two churches in Venice that are possible to walk all around. It is located in Dorsoduro neighbourhood, close to San Basilio water bus stop.

Wikipedia: Angelo San Raffaele, Venice (EN)

354 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Scuola Grande dei Carmini

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The Scuola Grande dei Carmini is a confraternity building in Venice, Italy. It is located in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, before Campo dei Carmini and Campo Santa Margherita, upon which its facade looks. It stands, separated by an alley, to the northeast of the church of Santa Maria dei Carmini.

Wikipedia: Scuola Grande dei Carmini (EN)

44 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Santa Maria dei Carmini

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Santa Maria dei Carmini, also called Santa Maria del Carmelo and commonly known simply as the Carmini, is a large Roman Catholic church in the sestiere, or neighbourhood, of Dorsoduro in Venice, northern Italy. It nestles against the former Scuola Grande di Santa Maria del Carmelo, also known as the Scuola dei Carmini. This charitable confraternity was officially founded in 1597, and arose from a lay women's charitable association, the Pinzocchere dei Carmini. The members of this lay group were associated as tertiaries to the neighbouring Carmelite monastery. They were responsible for stitching the scapulars for the Carmelites.

Wikipedia: Carmini (EN)

300 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: San Barnaba

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The Chiesa di San Barnaba is a neoclassical church in the district of Dorsoduro in Venice, Italy. It is dedicated to the Apostle Saint Barnabas.

Wikipedia: San Barnaba, Venice (EN)

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: San Pantalon

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The Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, known as San Pantalon in the Venetian language, is a church in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is located on the Campo San Pantalon (square), and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon.

Wikipedia: San Pantalon (EN)

256 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Scuola Grande di San Rocco

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The Scuola Grande di San Rocco is a building in Venice, northern Italy. It is noted for its collection of paintings by Tintoretto and generally agreed to include some of his finest work.

Wikipedia: Scuola Grande di San Rocco (EN), Website

126 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di San Rocco

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The church of San Rocco is a religious building located in Campo San Rocco, in the San Polo district, Venice.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Rocco (Venezia) (IT)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

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The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, commonly abbreviated to the Frari, is a church located in the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district of Venice, Italy. It is the largest church in the city and it has the status of a minor basilica. The church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (EN), Website

274 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista

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The church of San Giovanni Evangelista is a 15th-century religious building in the San Polo sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It stands across a courtyard from the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (EN)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di San Giacomo dall'Orio

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The Chiesa di San Giacomo dall'Orio is a church located in the sestiere (quarter) of Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: San Giacomo dell'Orio (EN)

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Palazzo Mocenigo

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The Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo is a palazzo near the Church of San Stae, south of the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, Italy. It is now a museum of fabrics and costumes, run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

Wikipedia: Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo (EN), Website

96 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa di Santa Maria Mater Domini

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Santa Maria Mater Domini is a Renaissance style church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Mater Domini (EN)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: San Cassiano

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San Cassiano is a 14th-century Roman Catholic church located in the San Polo sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. A church has stood on the site since 726 with the present building dedicated to Saint Cassian of Imola being consecrated in 1376 and re-modelled during the 17th century. It has a plain exterior with several adjacent buildings overlapping it. Its interior however is richly decorated in a Baroque style.

Wikipedia: San Cassiano, Venice (EN)

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Loggia della Pescaria

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The Loggia della Pescaria, Pescheria or Fish Market is a neo-Gothic market building in the sestiere of San Polo. It runs along the Grand Canal and the Rio de le Becarie.

Wikipedia: Pescaria (Venise) (FR)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: 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 that 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 23: 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)

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli

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The Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli di Cristo, commonly called San Apostoli, is a 7th-century Roman Catholic church located in the Cannaregio sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It is one of the oldest churches in the city and has undergone numerous changes since its foundation. The present building is the result of a major reconstruction project which was undertaken in 1575. The church is notable particularly for the Cornaro Chapel, an important example of Early Renaissance architecture, added by Mauro Codussi during the 1490s. The chapel is the burial place of several members of the powerful Cornaro family, including Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus and Armenia. The church houses several works of art including pieces by Giambattista Tiepolo and Paolo Veronese.

Wikipedia: Santi Apostoli, Venice (EN)

223 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Chiesa di San Canciano

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109 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

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Santa Maria dei Miracoli is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice (EN)

278 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: San Giovanni Grisostomo

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San Giovanni Grisostomo is a small church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Cannaregio, Venice.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice (EN)

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: Malibran

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Malibran Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Teatro Malibran, known over its lifetime by a variety of names, beginning with the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo after the nearby church, is an opera house in Venice which was inaugurated in 1678 with a production of the premiere of Carlo Pallavicino's opera Vespasiano. By 1683, it had quickly become known as "the biggest, most beautiful and richest theatre in the city" and its operatic importance throughout the 17th and 18th centuries led to an even grander description by 1730:A true kingdom of marvels....that with the vastness of its magnificent dimension can be rightly compared to the splendours of ancient Rome and that with the grandeur of its more than regal dramatic performances has now conquered the applause and esteem of the whole world.

Wikipedia: Teatro Malibran (EN)

194 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 29: Chiesa di San Lio

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San Lio is a church located on the campo of the same name in the sestiere of Castello.

Wikipedia: San Lio, Venice (EN)

95 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 30: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione

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Santa Maria della Fava, also originally known as Santa Maria della Consolazione, is an ancient Roman Catholic church in the sestiere of Castello in Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Fava (EN)

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 31: Chiesa di San Salvador

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The Chiesa di San Salvatore is a church in Venice, northern Italy. Known in Venetian as San Salvador, is located on the Campo San Salvador, along the Merceria, the main shopping street of Venice. The church was first consecrated in 1177 by Pope Alexander III shortly after his reconciliation with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at nearby San Marco. The present church, however, was begun in around 1508 by Giorgio Spavento and continued after his death the following year by Tullio Lombardo, Vincenzo Scamozzi and possibly Jacopo Sansovino. They built a large hall church, formed from three Greek crosses placed end to end. Each has a dome with a lantern to let light into the cavernous interior. The facade was added in 1663 by Giuseppe Sardi.

Wikipedia: San Salvador, Venice (EN)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 32: Venice

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VeniceKent Wang from Barcelona, Spain / CC BY-SA 2.0

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers. In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the Comune di Venezia, of whom around 51,000 live in the historical island city of Venice and the rest on the mainland (terraferma). Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million.

Wikipedia: Venice (EN)

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 33: Chiesa di San Bartolomeo

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San Bartolomeo is a church in Venice, Italy. It is near the Rialto Bridge in the sestiere (district) of San Marco.

Wikipedia: San Bartolomeo, Venice (EN)

46 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 34: Carlo Goldoni

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The Carlo Goldoni Monument is a monument dedicated to the Venetian playwright and playwright Carlo Goldoni, located in Campo San Bortolomio, Venice.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Carlo Goldoni (IT)

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 35: Rialto Bridge

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The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri (districts) of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in 1173, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.

Wikipedia: Rialto Bridge (EN)

62 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 36: Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo

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San Giacomo di Rialto is a church in the sestiere of San Polo, Venice, northern Italy. The inclusion of Rialto in the name distinguishes this church from San Giacomo dell'Orio which is situated in the sestiere of Santa Croce, on the same side of the Grand Canal.

Wikipedia: San Giacomo di Rialto (EN)

62 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 37: Il Gobbo di Rialto

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Il Gobbo di Rialto is a marble statue of a hunchback found opposite the Church of San Giacomo di Rialto at the end of the Rialto in Venice. Sculpted by Pietro da Salò in the 16th century, the statue takes the form of a crouching, naked hunchback supporting a small flight of steps.

Wikipedia: Il Gobbo di Rialto (EN)

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 38: Chiesa di San Giovanni Elemosinario

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Chiesa di San Giovanni Elemosinario

San Giovanni Elemosinario is a church of Venice, northern Italy, dedicated to Saint John the Almsgiver.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni Elemosinario (EN)

310 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 39: Chiesa di San Silvestro

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San Silvestro is a church building in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: San Silvestro, Venice (EN)

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 40: Sant' Aponal

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The church of Sant'Aponal is a deconsecrated Roman Catholic church in the sestiere of San Polo in Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Aponal (EN)

303 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 41: Chiesa di San Polo

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The Chiesa di San Polo is a Catholic church in Venice, dedicated to the Apostle Paul. It gives its name to the San Polo sestiere of the city.

Wikipedia: San Polo (church) (EN)

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