Sestiere “Cannaregio”
The old name of this sestiere was Cannarecium. It is located north of the Grand Canal.
According to some historians, the name Canaleclo was given in the 9th and 10th centuries for the numerous fresh water (possibly created by the river Brenta) reed thickets of the area.
Ca' D'Oro
It is one of the most famous buildings in Venice, and is, along with the Ducal Palace, the greatest expression of the full flower of Venetian Gothic. The facade was erected by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon, father and son, at the order of the...
Ca' Zanardi
Ca' Zanardi, (first half of XVIth century), is located in the heart of the authentic Venice, away from the crowded touristic attraction and is accessible by its water door on the canal or in five minutes walking distance from the Ca' d'Oro. The...
Casa del Tintoretto
At number 3399 stands the house of Jacopo Tintoretto, who died there in 1594.
Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
Built in the middle of the 1300s in the Gothic style by Fra Tiberio of Parma, originally the church was called San Cristofaro, but the installation in the church of an ancient miraculous image of the Madonna which had been found in an orto, or...
Chiesa di San Geremia
Founded in the 11th century, rebuilt in the 13th and consecrated in1292. The present plan of the church derives from a design by Carlo Corbellini (1753) and preserves Venetian works of art from the late 1700s: Novelli, Colonna, Mengardi and the...
Chiesa di San Giobbe
Here during the 1300s stood a small oratory dedicated to S. Giobbe. Honoured by the presence of Brother Bernardino of Siena and financed by the doge Cristofaro Moro, the construction of a church began towards the middle of the 1400s. This first...
Chiesa di Sant'Alvise
Construction was begun in 1388 through donations from Antonia Venier and the church was consecrated to S. Luigi bishop of Tolosa, who appeared to the young devout Venetian patrician in a dream. The facade, dating from the late 1300s, retains its...
Ghetto
On the 29th March 1516, the Senate of the Venetian Republic approved Zaccaria Dolfin’s proposal to move all the Jews into one area of the City. The area was called the “Geto Novo”. “Geto” comes from getto, meaning throw, due to the number...
Palazzo Manfrin
Once Priuli, then Venier and rebuilt to a design by Andrea Tirali in 1734 – 5. In 1787 it was bought by Gerolamo Manfrin, an extremely rich tobacco manufacturer from Friuli. The palazzo is one of the first exzmples of 17th – century architecture...
Palazzo Mastelli
A few steps from the church of the Madonna dell’Orto stands palazzo Mastelli, also called “del Cammello” (“of the camel”) because of a relief showing a man pulling a camel. This relief illustrates the family business of the owners, who...
Ponte delle Guglie
Built in 1580 to replace a wooden structure, it owes its name to the four obelisks placed at its four corners when it was completed in 1823. It was first built in 1285, reconstructed in 1580, restored in 1641 and 1776 and a couple of times more...
Scoletta dell'Angelo Custode
A 17th – century construction by Andrea Tirali. In 1812, the “Fontego dei Tedeschi” being suppressed, the German Protestants placed their headquarters here. On the upper floor can be seen the “Vergine in Gloria e Cristo Benedicente” by...
Chiesa di San Giovanni Crisostomo
Among the most successful works of Mauro Codussi, who worked here between 1497 and 1504. Inside, on the main altar, is “St. Crisostomo and saints” by Sebastiano di Piombo and in the first chapel on the right is “S. Girolamo, S. Cristoforo and...
Ca' Vendramin Calergi
Known also as the “Non Nobis Domine” because of the engraving based on the opening verse of a psalm which was cut into the stone under the ground-floor window. Conceived and in part constructed by Mauro Codussi, it was finished by the Bottega...
Chiesa degli Scalzi
Designed by Baldassare Longhena, with a facade by Giuseppe Sardi. It was built between 1660 and the beginning of the 18th century and was enriched by an image which came from the Lazzaretto Vecchio, at that time also called the Island of St. Mary of...
Chiesa dei Gesuiti
Also called S. Maria Assunta, it originally beloged to the order of the Crociferi. In 1657, following its acquisition by the Jesuits from the nearby monastery, it was thought to rebuild the church and the work was completed in 1729. The late-baroque...
Chiesa dei Miracoli
A jewel of the Renaissance by Pietro Lombardo, erected between 1481 and 1489 to contain a precious icon of the Virgin which was held to be miraculous and was already being venerated in 1477. Covered both inside and out with multicoloured marble,...
Chiesa dei SS. Apostoli
Since 1575 it has been altered and reconstructed many times. Of the 16th – century building there remains only the Cornaro Chapel (Cappella Cornaro), probably the work of Mauro Codussi, where lay the body of Caterina Cornaro, the Queen of Cyprus,...
Chiesa di San Felice
Founded in the 10th century, renovated in the 13th and partially reconstructed in 1531. The structure of the church, in its simplicity of line, traces its origins from the churches of S. Giovanni Crisostomo and S. M. Formosa, both of which were...
Chiesa di San Marcuola
The church of SS. Ermagora and Fortunato. The structure, built between 1728 and 1736, is the work of Massari who wanted to place the facade and the great doorway on the side of the canal, but this was not completed. The interior of the church is...
Chiesa di Santa Fosca
Founded in the 10th century and slowly rebuilt, the present building dates from the first half of the 1700s and was consecrated in 1733. In the centre stands the monument to Fra Paolo Sarpi, which is decribed in this guide.
Chiesa di Santa Sofia
Of very modest dimensions, sandwiched between the houses of the Strada Nova from which can be seen its small, squat belltower, it contains two canvasses from Bottega del Bassano (“Il Presepio” e “Cristo Deriso”), by Heinz and Palma the...
Monumento a Fra' Paolo Sarpi
A bronze statue by Emilio Marsili (1892), erected to the memory of Paolo Sarpi (1552 – 1623), philospher and thinker, who supported Venice in her dispute with Pope Paul V, who in 1606 published an interdict against the Serenissima Republic. The...
Palazzo Labia
One of the most important buildings in the city, built between the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, it takes its name from the Labia family, Catalan merchants who came to Venice during the war with Candia and became part of the...
Palazzo Pesaro - Papafava
We have information about the Palace in one sentence of the "Signori della notte" (lett. Lords of the nights) to the "Criminal" (the Venetian Republic's courthouse) on the 9th of February 1372. But the dating of the Palace's facade on the canal...
Palazzo Sagredo
The whole building, despite its many remodellings, is of Gothic derivation with beautiful windows overlooking the Grand Canal. The interior is 17th – century, and retains the staircase designed by Andrea Tirali and frescoed by Pietro Longhi.
Ponte dei Tre Archi
Built by Andrea Tirali in 1688 and restored in 1794. Its most characteristic feature is an unusual triple arch, which is unique in Venice. Tirali maintained the older design as it appears in the prospective plan by De Barbari (1500).
Scuola dei Crociferi
Founded by the doge Renier Zeno (1253 – 68) and completed by the doge Pasquale Cicogna (1585 – 95) it holds the cycle depicting the order of things by Jacopo Palma the Younger.
Suggested Routes
Cannaregio – Ghetto
Type: By feet
Zone: Historical Area | Sestiere "Cannaregio"
Ca’ d’Oro, Madonna dell’Orto, Ghetto, San Giobbe
Cannaregio – Santa Croce
Type: By feet
Zone: Historical Area | Sestiere "Cannaregio" | Sestiere "Santa Croce"
Ferrovia, S.Geremia, San Marcuola, San Stae
Miracoli
Type: By feet
Zone: Historical Area | Sestiere "Cannaregio" | Sestiere "San Marco"
S.Bartolomio, S.Maria dei Miracoli, Gesuiti, Fondamenta Nuove
San Zanpolo
Type: By feet
Zone: Historical Area | Sestiere "Cannaregio" | Sestiere "San Marco"
Fondamenta Nuove, S.Zanipolo, S.Maria Formosa, S.Salvatore
