The Sotoportego de Gheto Novo is a stone-vaulted, roofed passageway that functions as a gateway into the historic Jewish Ghetto of Venice. It passes directly beneath the lower floors of residential buildings, a feature created to maintain…
Cannaregio Jewish Ghetto
This walk takes you through the world's oldest Jewish Ghetto, exploring its towering tenement buildings, historic synagogues, and quiet canals. You'll gain a poignant understanding of community resilience, religious history, and cultural preservation in Venice.
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1. Sotoportego de Gheto Novo
2. Ponte de Gheto Novo
The Ponte de Gheto Novo is one of the original bridges providing access to the first Jewish ghetto in history. You can identify it by the neat wooden railings that span the rio della Misericordia, leading directly into the heart of the…
3. Campo di Ghetto Nuovo
Campo di Ghetto Nuovo stands out as a unusually spacious, quiet square in the Cannaregio district, surrounded by tall buildings that stretch up to eight stories high. This enclosure was established on March twenty-ninth, fifteen sixteen,…
4. Banco Rosso
The Banco Rosso, or Red Bank, sits at number two thousand eight hundred twelve in the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo. This structure marks a period in Venetian history when the Republic of Venice restricted Jewish residents to specific…
5. Great German Scola
The Scola Grande Tedesca is identifiable from the square by five large windows arranged in a row, the only outward sign of the synagogue tucked into the upper floors of the surrounding buildings. Founded in fifteen twenty-eight by the…
6. Monumento Vittime della Shoah - Arbit Blatas -
In the Campo di Ghetto Nuovo, seven bronze bas-reliefs are mounted directly onto a brick wall, forming a memorial to the victims of the Nazi deportations. Created by Lithuanian-born artist Arbit Blatas and installed here on April…
7. Ponte de Ghetto vecchio
The Ponte de Ghetto Vecchio is a small footbridge that crosses the Rio del Gheto, acting as a direct link between the older residential core of the Venetian Ghetto and its fifteen-forty-one extension. While the district is known for its…
8. Sinagoga Spagnola
The Sinagoga Spagnola stands in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice as the largest and most prominent of the city’s historic synagogues. Its exterior features an austere facade with four large arched windows on the primary floor and a row of…
9. Sinagoga Levantina
The Sinagoga Levantina is defined by a plain, severe exterior that conceals an exceptionally intricate Baroque interior. Located in the Cannaregio district on the Campiello delle Scuole, the synagogue is identifiable from the outside…