Sights in Cannaregio

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• Venice Cannaregio and Jewish Ghetto Walking Tour
• Private Tour: Venice Art and Architecture Walking Tour
• Skip the Line: Venice in One Day

Where to eat in Cannaregio
Trattoria Cea [meal]
Brek [quick]

Hotels in Cannaregio
Reid Recommends **Bernardi-Semenzato [cheap]
Reid Recommends Ariel Silva [cheap]

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The Ca d'Oro of Venice** Ca' d'Oro - Venice's 15th-century "Golden Palace" is one of the best preserved and most impressive of the hundreds of patrician palazzi lining the Grand Canal. After the Palazzo Ducale, it's the city's finest example of Venetian Gothic architecture. Inside is a museum housing sculptures, furniture, 16th-century Flemish tapestries, ceramics, an impressive collection of bronzes (12th–16th century), and a painting gallery including canvases by Andrea Mantegna, Titian, Tintoretto, Carpaccio, Van Dyck, Giorgione, and Jan Steen... Full story

The Scola Ponente, or Scola Spagnola, a 16th century synagogue in the Jewish Ghetto of VeniceJewish Ghetto - Venice's historic Jewish Ghetto was built largely in the 16th and 17th centuries. The word "ghetto" wasn't originally a derogatory term, rather it was the Venetian dialect name for the neighborhood in which the city's Jews lived (though, admittedly, their movements were at times greatly restricted). Get great background on the are and its history at the Ghetto's Museum of Jewish life and history in Venice, with a collection of 16th– to 19th-century artifacts and tours of several of the neighborhood's five historic and beautiful synagogues... Full story

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