Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Venice, Italy
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12.7 km
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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 VeniceSight 1: San Nicolò dei Mendicoli
San Nicolò dei Mendicoli is a church, which is located in the sestiere of Dorsoduro in Venice.
Sight 2: Santa Teresa
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.
Sight 3: San Raffaele Arcangelo
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.
Sight 4: Chiesa di San Sebastian
San Sebastiano is a church in Dorsoduro, Veneto. It contains a considerable part of Paolo Veronese's life's work. There are also sculptures by Alessandro Vittoria in the church, as well as Veronese's tomb on the left in front of the side altar.
Sight 5: San Barnaba
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.
Sight 6: 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.
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: San Tomà
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San Tomà is a church which is located in the sestiere of San Polo in Venice, Italy. It stands opposite the Scoletta dei Calegheri.
Sight 9: Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice (Italy), between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele.
Sight 10: Chiesa di San Samuele
The church of San Samuele in the Venetian district of San Marco is one of the few churches in the city with direct access to the Grand Canal. On the other two sides of the Campo of the same name are Palazzo Grassi and Palazzo Malipiero, as well as the San Samuele vaporetto station.
Sight 11: Chiesa di San Vidal
San Vidal is a former church, and now an event and concert hall located at one end of the Campo Santo Stefano in the Sestiere of San Marco, where it leads into the campiello San Vidal, and from there to the Ponte dell'Accademia that spans the Grand Canal and connects to the Sestiere of Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy.
Sight 12: Santa Maria del Giglio o Zobenigo
The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio is a church in Venice, Italy.
Sight 13: Chiesa di San Maurizio
San Maurizio is a Neoclassical-style, deconsecrated church located in the campo San Maurizio in the sestiere of San Marco of the city of Venice, Italy. It now is a Museum focusing on the music of Baroque Venice.
Sight 14: Santo Stefano
The Chiesa di Santo Stefano is a large Roman Catholic church at the northern end of the Campo Santo Stefano in the sestiere of San Marco, Venice, Italy.
Sight 15: Chiesa di San Beneto
The Chiesa di San Benedetto is a Roman Catholic church in Venice, northern Italy. Generally known as San Beneto in the Venetian dialect, the church faces the square named after it, the Campo San Beneto. It was founded in the 11th century and rebuilt in 1685.
Sight 16: Chiesa di San Luca
The church of San Luca Evangelista is a church in the sestiere of San Marco in Venice, Italy.
Sight 17: Scala Contarini del Bovolo
The Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo is a small palazzo in Venice, Italy, best known for its external multi-arch spiral staircase known as the Scala Contarini del Bovolo.
Sight 18: Chiesa di San Fantin
San Fantin is a church in the sestiere of San Marco in Venice, Italy. It stands in front of the Fenice Theater and adjacent to the Ateneo Veneto.
Sight 19: Chiesa di San Moisè
The Chiesa di San Moisè is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in Venice, northern Italy.
Sight 20: Procuratie Nuove
The Procuratie are three connected buildings along the perimeter of Saint Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. Two of the buildings, the Procuratie Vecchie and the Procuratie Nuove, were constructed by the procurators of Saint Mark, the second-highest dignitaries in the government of the Republic of Venice, who were charged with administering the treasury of the Church of Saint Mark as well as the financial affairs of state wards and trust funds established on behalf of religious and charitable institutions.
Sight 21: Chiesa di San Gallo
The church of San Gallo is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the San Marco district, not far from St. Mark's Square.
Sight 22: Chiesa di San Zulian
The Chiesa di San Giuliano, commonly called San Zulian in the Venetian dialect, is a church on the Merceria, the main shopping street of Venice, in the parish of San Salvador, Venice, Italy.
Sight 23: Chiesa di San Lio
San Lio is a church located on the campo of the same name in the sestiere of Castello.
Sight 24: Chiesa di San Bartolomeo
San Bartolomeo is a church in Venice, Italy. It is near the Rialto Bridge in the sestiere (district) of San Marco.
Sight 25: Venice
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.
Sight 26: Chiesa di San Silvestro
San Silvestro is a church building in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, northern Italy.
Sight 27: Sant' Aponal
The church of Sant'Aponal is a deconsecrated Roman Catholic church in the sestiere of San Polo in Venice, Italy.
Sight 28: Casa di Carlo Goldoni
The House of Carlo Goldoni, or in Italian, Casa di Carlo Goldoni is writer's house museum located in a small palace or palazzetto, that served as the residence of the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni. Located in San Polo, Venice, it is now a museum and library of theater studies.
Sight 29: Chiesa di San Polo
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.
Sight 30: Chiesa di San Giacomo dall'Orio
The Chiesa di San Giacomo dall'Orio is a church located in the sestiere (quarter) of Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy.
Sight 31: Chiesa di Santa Maria Mater Domini
Santa Maria Mater Domini is a Renaissance style church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, Italy.
Sight 32: 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 33: Loggia della Pescaria
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.
Sight 34: Il Gobbo di Rialto
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.
Sight 35: Chiesa di San Giovanni Elemosinario
San Giovanni Elemosinario is a church of Venice, northern Italy, dedicated to Saint John the Almsgiver.
Sight 36: Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo
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.
Sight 37: 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.
Sight 38: Malibran
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.
Sight 39: San Giovanni Grisostomo
San Giovanni Grisostomo is a small church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Cannaregio, Venice.
Sight 40: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli
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.
Sight 41: Chiesa di San Canciano
Sight 42: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Santa Maria dei Miracoli is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Venice, Italy.
Sight 43: Chiesa di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti
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.
Sight 44: Santa Maria del Pianto
Santa Maria del Pianto is a late-Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in Venice, Italy. This dilapidated octagonal church in a forgotten corner of Venice was designed by Baldassare Longhena, and appears inspired by Longhena's Santa Maria della Salute on the Grand Canal, Venice.
Sight 45: Chiesa dell'Ospedaletto
Santa Maria dei Derelitti, commonly known as the church of the Ospedaletto, is a Renaissance-style, consecrated church in the Calle della Barbaria delle Tole of the sestiere of Castello, Venice, Italy.
Sight 46: Basilica of Saints John and Paul
The Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a Catholic minor basilica and Dominican conventual church in the Castello sestiere of Venice, Italy.
Sight 47: Querini Stampalia Foundation
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural institution in Venice, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family, Conte Giovanni Querini. Architect Carlo Scarpa designed interior, exterior, and garden elements and spaces on the ground floor of the historic building.
Sight 48: Chiesa di San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is a church building in the sestiere of Castello of Venice, northern Italy.
Sight 49: Chiesa di San Giovanni di Malta
San Giovanni di Malta, also known as San Giovanni del Tempio or San Giovanni dei Furlani, is a Roman Catholic church in the Castello sestiere of Venice, Italy, dedicated to John the Baptist. It is believed to have been established by the Knights Hospitaller sometime after 1187, although it is sometimes linked to the Knights Templar. The present building was constructed between 1498 and 1505, and it is located adjacent to a priory. The property was taken over by the state in 1806 and the church was closed in 1810, but in 1841 it was handed over to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, who reopened the church in 1843.
Sight 50: San Francesco della Vigna
San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice, northern Italy.
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