Off the beaten path walk in Venice

Ca' Foscari Rio Nuovo

15 min

The meeting point will this charming Campiello close to Ca Foscari, a gothic palace on the Canal Grande housing the headquarters of the Venice University

Campo San Pantalon

15 min

Before looking at the only graffito by Banksy in Venice on Rio Novo, we will admire the largest painting on canvas in the world at San Pantolon church

Campo Santa Margherita

15 min

We will cross this large campo, hosting a quiet market in the morning and one of the main hib of the venetian nightlife from the late afternoon

Campo San Barnaba

10 min

The neoclassical facade of the church is very familiar also to visitors on their first time in Venice. This place became famous because of some scenes of the film ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' (1989) and "Summer time" (1955).

Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Carmini

15 min

A 14th century cathedral which has preserved its
original Gothic character.
Carmini church worked together with the Scuola Grande dei Carmini just beside it, both belonging to Carmelites and therefore dedicated to the worship of the Virgin of Mount Carmel in Palestine (Santa Maria del Carmelo).

Campo dei Carmini

15 min

In this square stands what remains of an ancient palace inhabited in the distant past by the Moro family and known as the "​house of Othello

Palazzo Ca' Zenobio

15 min

Palazzo Zenobio is considered to be one of the most significant examples of Venetian late Baroque design, both architecturally and in interior decor. Throughout the XVIII century the Palace became a venue for intense intellectual life. Since 1993, after a complete restoration, it now serves as a research centre for Armenian studies.

Chiesa di San Sebastiano

15 min

One of Venice’s leading art venues thanks to its magnificent cycle of paintings by Paolo Veronese, who is buried here. Next to the Church there was the convent which now houses the
humanities faculty of Ca’ Foscari University (re-designed by the famous Italian designer Carlo Scarpa in a dialectic twist with the old church)

Chiesa di San Nicolo dei Mendicoli

15 min

A 12th Century church with a Veneto-Byzantine tower
bell and the interiors all in wood. Early Venice was an aggregation of independent communities, each with its own individual characteristics. San Nicolò dei Mendicoli is an extreme case: its inhabitants (all fishermen) gathered in the church we are going to enter in a while to elect their own doge, who would have dressed in scarlet and following a symbolic ritual, go to the Doge’s Palace in Saint Mark’s to receive the embrace of the true doge.

Chiesa dell'Angelo Raffaele

15 min

The Church of Angelo Raffaele - the only church in Venice with two bell towers - tradition says it was built in 416 to
fulfill a vow.
This part of the city is very much Venetian and you can find kids playing in the calle in the afternoon.

San Basilio

15 min

San Basilio - once the maritime terminal where all the steamers used to arrive back in 19th Century. It overlooks the Canale della
Giudecca and we admire the Giudecca Island on our right with the
magnificent Mulino Stucky building, an important example of 19th century industrial archaeology now housing a hotel.

Fondamenta Zattere

15 min

This wide fondamenta was once called “Carbonaia” (because of the coal - carbone in Italian - that used to be unloaded here). Paved in 1519 in was then called “delle Zattere” because here docked the rafts - zattere - with wood for the Arsenale arriving from the mainland by river and then by lagoon.

Punta della Dogana

15 min

Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the Dogana da Mar. It also refers to the triangular scenografic area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: Santa Maria della Salute, the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.