Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Venice, Italy

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 4.1 km
Ascend 34 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: Madonna dell'Orto

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The Madonna dell'Orto is a church in Venice, Italy, in the sestiere of Cannaregio. This was the home parish of Tintoretto and holds a number of his works as well as his tomb.

Wikipedia: Madonna dell'Orto (EN)

527 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa di Sant'Alvise

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Sant'Alvise is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. The brick exterior and facade do not reflect the rich interior.

Wikipedia: Sant'Alvise (EN)

220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di San Bonaventura

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The Church of San Bonaventura is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the Cannaregio district.

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

388 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa delle Cappuccine

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The Church of the Capuchins is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the Cannaregio district. The church is dedicated to Mary and St. Francis, but takes its name from the convent which, built at the beginning of the seventeenth century, was demolished following the Napoleonic suppressions.

Wikipedia: Chiesa delle Cappuccine (IT)

119 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa di San Girolamo

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270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Museo Ebraico

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The Jewish Museum of Venice is a museum focusing on the history of Jews in the city of Venice.

Wikipedia: Jewish Museum of Venice (EN)

8 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Great German Synagogue

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The Great German Synagogue is one of five synagogues in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy. Established in 1528, it is the oldest Venetian synagogue.

Wikipedia: Great German Synagogue (EN), Website

49 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Scuola Italiana

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The Italian Synagogue is one of five synagogues in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice.

Wikipedia: Italian Synagogue (Venice) (EN)

233 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Scuola Ponentina

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The Spanish Synagogue is one of the two functioning synagogues in the Venetian Ghetto of Venice, northern Italy. It is open for services from Passover until the end of the High Holiday season.

Wikipedia: Spanish Synagogue (Venice) (EN)

297 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa di San Leonardo

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The church of San Leonardo is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the Cannaregio district along the Strada Nova.

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

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia

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Since 2018, the Church of San Geremia has also held the title of Sanctuary of Santa Lucia. It is located in Venice in the Cannaregio district. It is an important building of worship of medieval origin, rebuilt on several occasions but in its current form only between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The property is full of works of art. It houses various illustrious relics on which stand the mortal remains of Saint Lucia of Syracuse, which arrived in the church in the nineteenth century, following the demolition of the church of Saint Lucia located on the site of the Venice railway station.

Wikipedia: Santuario di Lucia (IT)

264 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Parco Savorgnan

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The Parco Savorgnan is a public park in the Venetian district (sestors) Cannaregio in the size of around 9500 m². He originally belonged to the neighboring Palazzo Savorgnan, the residence of the Venetian noble family of the same name, which is used today for school purposes. The old and sometimes exotic plant stock was previously protected by temporary glass houses. Today the park is owned by the municipality and the province of Venice and also includes the green area belonging to the Palazzo Venier Manfin. It is one of the rare inner -city green areas of the lagoon city and serves mainly recovery purposes. Remains of the old garden staff, for example a pavilion, have been preserved.

Wikipedia: Parco Savorgnan (DE)

464 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di Santa Maria di Nazareth

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Santa Maria di Nazareth is a Roman Catholic Carmelite church in Venice, northern Italy. It is also called Church of the Scalzi being the seat in the city of the Discalced Carmelites religious order. Located in the sestiere of Cannaregio, near Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, it was built in the mid-17th century to the designs of Baldassarre Longhena and completed in the last decades of that century.

Wikipedia: Scalzi, Venice (EN)

753 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di San Giobbe

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The Church of St Job is a 15th-century Roman Catholic church located overlooking the campo of the same name, known as Sant'Agiopo in Venetian dialect, on the south bank of the Cannaregio canal near Ponte dei Tre Archi in the sestiere of Cannaregio of Venice, northern Italy,

Wikipedia: San Giobbe (EN)

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti

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The church of Santa Maria delle Penitenti, is part of a large complex: Pio Loco delle Penitenti, located on the canal Cannaregio, near its exit to the lagoon facing Mestre, in the Northwest edge of Venice, Italy. It gained its name as a charitable institution providing an alternative life to former prostitutes, akin to a Magdalene asylum.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria delle Penitenti (EN)

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