Venice
Neighborhoods
Each district has its own personality
Venice Neighborhoods
Find the right area for your travel style
San Marco
The monumental core of Venice: Byzantine gold mosaics, Gothic palace facades, the Bridge of Sighs, and a piazza Napoleon called the drawing room of Europe. Expensive and essential.
Dorsoduro
The art and student neighbourhood on the south bank: two of the best museums in Venice, the Grand Canal entrance with the Salute dome, Campo Santa Margherita for cheap spritz, and the Zattere waterfront walk.
Cannaregio
The most residential sestiere: the world's first Jewish Ghetto, the best bacari strips in Venice, Ca'd'Oro Gothic palace on the Grand Canal, and laundry lines where the tourist density drops to nearly zero.
San Polo & Santa Croce
The Rialto market sestiere: the best fish market in Italy (Tuesday-Saturday mornings), Titian's Assumption in the Frari church, Tintoretto's 23-year painting cycle at San Rocco, and the densest bacaro concentration in Venice.
Castello & the Arsenale
The quiet eastern tail of Venice where the tourists thin out: Santi Giovanni e Paolo church, Via Garibaldi neighbourhood life, the Arsenale gateway, and the Biennale gardens at the eastern tip.