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Sestieri of Venice

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Cannaregio

Cannaregio seduces with its quiet and secluded corners that overlook the Lagoon. It is the district that hosts some of the most beautiful Gothic and Renaissance churches in the city, but there are also many taverns and bàcari where Venetians love to have an aperitif with the most classic cichéti.

Giorgio Franchetti Galleries - Ca' d'Oro

Ca' Vendramin Calergi

Ghetto of Venice - Jewish Museum

Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Church of Sant’Alvise

Teatro Malibran

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Sestieri of Venice

Cannaregio

Cannaregio seduces with its quiet and secluded corners that overlook the Lagoon. It is the district that hosts some of the most beautiful Gothic and Renaissance churches in the city, but there are also many taverns and bàcari where Venetians love to have an aperitif with the most classic cichéti.

Castello

Castello, the largest sestiere in Venice, is considered a very popular, lively and authentic area of ​​the city. Here you can breathe the atmosphere of everyday Venice but there is no shortage of masterpieces and treasures to discover.

San Marco

San Marco is the best known sestiere in Venice. It is here that St Mark's Square, the heart of the city, is located, with its monuments such as the Basilica and St Mark's Bell Tower, the Doge's Palace, the Clock Tower and the Correr Museum.

Dorsoduro

Dorsoduro is the perfect sestiere in Venice for art lovers, extraordinarily rich in great masterpieces and treasures hidden in each of its museums and churches.

San Polo

San Polo is the smallest sestiere in Venice. It hosts Campo San Polo, the largest in the city, where the church dedicated to St Paul the Apostle stands, from which the campo and the sestiere take their name.

Santa Croce

The small sestiere of Santa Croce is the ideal destination for those looking for quiet corners from which to admire the beauty of some of Venice's oldest churches such as San Zan Degolà and San Giacomo dall'Orio, or who prefer to explore the haunts of Venetians, including Campo dei Tolentini.

Itineraries through the sestieri