Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Venice, Italy

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.3 km
Ascend 124 m
Descend 122 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: 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)

935 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: 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)

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: 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

525 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: 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)

324 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: 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)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: 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)

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: 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)

125 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: 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.

Wikipedia: Rialto Bridge (EN)

73 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: 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 10: 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)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Malibran

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Malibran Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Malibran (EN)

271 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

329 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

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Santa Maria dei Miracoli is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice (EN)

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Basilica of Saints John and Paul

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The Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a church in the Castello sestiere of Venice, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (EN)

78 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa dell'Ospedaletto

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria dei Derelitti (EN)

382 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Santa Maria del Pianto

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria del Pianto, Venice (EN)

532 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di San Lorenzo

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San Lorenzo is a church building in the sestiere of Castello of Venice, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: San Lorenzo, Venice (EN)

467 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 18: Querini Stampalia Foundation

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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.

Wikipedia: Fondazione Querini Stampalia (EN), Website

570 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: Procuratie Nuove

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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.

Wikipedia: Procuratie (EN)

340 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Chiesa di San Moisè

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The Chiesa di San Moisè is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in Venice, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: San Moisè, Venice (EN)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Chiesa di San Fantin

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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.

Wikipedia: San Fantin, Venice (EN)

369 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: Scala Contarini del Bovolo

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo (EN)

324 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: 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 24: 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)

439 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 25: Chiesa di San Silvestro

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San Silvestro is a church building in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, northern Italy.

Wikipedia: San Silvestro, Venice (EN)

398 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: 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)

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 27: 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.

Wikipedia: San Tomà, Venice (EN)

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 28: Palazzo Grassi

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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.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Grassi (EN), Website

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 29: Chiesa di San Samuele

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San Samuele is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the eponymous campo near Palazzo Grassi and Palazzo Malipiero. The facade is set back on the campo, but faces and is visible from the Grand Canal. It is named after the Biblical Samuel, because in the interior are housed relics traditionally attributed to him.

Wikipedia: San Samuele, Venice (EN)

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Chiesa di San Vidal

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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.

Wikipedia: San Vidal, Venice (EN)

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