Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Venice, Italy
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6.8 km
82 m
Explore Venice in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in VeniceIndividual Sights in VeniceSight 1: Chiesa del Nome di Gesù
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.
Sight 2: Chiesa di San Simeon Piccolo
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.
Sight 3: Giardini Papadopoli
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.
Sight 4: San Nicola da Tolentino
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.
Sight 5: Scuola Grande di San Rocco
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.
Sight 6: Chiesa di San Rocco
The church of San Rocco is a religious building located in Campo San Rocco, in the San Polo district of Venice, Italy.
Sight 7: Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
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.
Sight 8: Chiesa di San Silvestro
San Silvestro is a church building in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, northern Italy.
Sight 9: San Cassiano
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.
Sight 10: San Giovanni Decollato
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.
Sight 11: Palazzo Mocenigo
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.
Sight 12: Chiesa di San Stae
San Stae is a church in central Venice, in the sestiere of Santa Croce.
Sight 13: Chiesa San Marcuola
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.
Sight 14: Scuola Ponentina
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.
Sight 15: Parco Savorgnan
Parco Savorgnan is a public park in the Venetian district of Cannaregio with a size of about 9500 m². It originally belonged to the neighbouring Palazzo Savorgnan, the residence of the Venetian noble family of the same name, which is now used for educational purposes. The old and partly exotic plant population used to be protected by temporary greenhouses. Today, the park is owned by the Municipality and the Province of Venice and also includes the green area belonging to Palazzo Venier Manfrin. It is one of the rare inner-city green spaces of the lagoon city and is mainly used for recreational purposes. Remnants of the old garden decoration, such as a pavilion, have been preserved.
Sight 16: Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia
The Church of St. Jeremiah or rather Church of St. Jeremiah the Prophet since 2018 also holds the title of Sanctuary of St. Lucy or Sanctuary of 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.
Sight 17: Chiesa di San Leonardo
The church of San Leonardo is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the Cannaregio district along the Strada Nova.
Sight 18: Ca' Vendramin Calergi - Casinò di Venezia
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.
Sight 19: Chiesa di San Felice
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.
Sight 20: Ex chiesa Santa Caterina
The "Marco Foscarini" high school is the oldest high school in Venice and one of the oldest in Italy having been founded in 1807 with the decree of Eugenio di Beauharnais, viceroy of Italy and goded from Napoleon I who established six high schools in as many cities of the Kingdom of Italy. At its foundation it was known as High School of Santa Caterina, from the name of the former convent in which it is still based, in the Cannaregio Sestiere a few hundred meters from the bank of the founded nine, and like I.R. Liceal Gymnasium of Santa Caterina from 1850 to 1867.
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