Location: Cannaregio
Top Things to do in Cannaregio
Top 9 Historic Walking Areas in Cannaregio, Veneto
With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
Restaurants in Venice
1. Campo del Ghetto
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4.5 based on 1,294 reviews
Dating back to the 16th-century, this is the oldest Jewish Ghetto in the world with its five synagogues, which are the oldest still existing.
Reviewed By 303SteveA303 - Bath, United States
When you describe the experience of visiting Venice, it seems to always include St Mark', the Doge's Palace, the Rialto Bridge, the Grand Canal and perhaps a day in Murano across the lagoon. We stayed in the Canneregio neighborhood and enjoyed a part of Venice that is a little removed from the main tourist areas. It is also where the Jewish ghetto is and we found it to be a very interesting place to wander about and explore. The story of Jews in Venice is fascinating. Our visit to the Jewish museum on the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo gave us a better understanding of the role that Jews played in the social and economic history of Venice. The tour they offer of the old synagogues in the ghetto is also excellent to help understand the religious traditions Jews brought to Venice. As in other parts of Venice, there are canals, narrow streets, and squares; but here there are also old gates intended to lock in residents of the ghetto after dark. There is also an excellent kosher restaurant, Gam Gam, nearby that serves some really good food and should not be missed. Right down the street from the restaurant is a wonderful pastry shop .... another reason to visit the ghetto.
2. Campiello della Madonna
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
3. Fondamenta Misericordia
4. Strada Nova
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4.0 based on 80 reviews
Reviewed By Bandit-One - Lucerne, Switzerland
Walking in Venice is a great thing to do. This time we walked everywhere, never even took a Vaporetto. When you start at the Train Station you can walk along Rio Terà Lista di Spagna, then head on Rio Terà San Leonardo, which turns into this nice street here, the Strada Nova. It's a nice, long and wide walking street. There's lots to see. Besides the countless cafés and restaurants you have the chain and independent stores, supermarkets and lots of landmarks like the Santa Fosca church with the picturesque Campo Santa Fosca, the San Felice Church, the Santa Sofia Church and the Chiesa Cattolica Parrocchiale dei Santi Apostoli. Even you not plan on eating or shopping, the walk itself is worth doing it. Especially when it gets later and the streets are getting less visitors it's a wonderful, romantic walk.
5. Campo dei Gesuiti
6. Calle de la Racheta
7. Campo Santa Sofia
8. Rio Tera San Leonardo
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4.0 based on 8 reviews
Reviewed By Bandit-One - Lucerne, Switzerland
After walking the Rio Terà Lista di Spagna from the train station you will soon head into this street. And it's another wonderfully charming street here in - popular, but for good reason - Venice. It's pretty wide and never feels too crowded. Especially later in the afternoon or in the evening when many visitors left the city. Many good restaurants are lined up here as well as shops (being it chains or independent ones). In the middle there are a good number of stalls, selling cheap souvenirs (but hey, why not...), bags (no names as well as knock-offs), shirts etc. It just feels like a happy place and strolling along this street was a daily thing we did and we never got bored. We just love Venice.
9. Calle de la Testa
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