Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Venice, Italy

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 7.8 km
Ascend 99 m
Descend 106 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: 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 2: 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)

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Palazzo Bembo

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Palazzo Bembo is a palace in Venice, Italy, on the Grand Canal, close by the Rialto Bridge and next to the Palazzo Dolfin Manin.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Bembo (EN)

170 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: 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)

313 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Il Gobbo di Rialto

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Il Gobbo di RialtoG.dallorto / Attribution

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)

195 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: 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 7: Carlo Goldoni

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

Wikipedia: Monumento a Carlo Goldoni (IT)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: 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)

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: 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)

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: 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)

126 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: 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

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: 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)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: 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 15: 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)

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: 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)

96 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: 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

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: 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)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 19: 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)

274 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: 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

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Chiesa di San Rocco

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The church of San Rocco is a religious building located in the San Rocco field, in the Sestiere di San Polo, in Venice.

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

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: 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)

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 23: 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)

300 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: 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)

392 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 25: 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)

382 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: 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)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: 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)

888 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 28: 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)

202 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 29: 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)

420 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 30: 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)

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