Campo Bandiera e Moro is distinguished by the quiet, irregular space it carves out of the dense Castello district, anchored on its eastern edge by the brick facade of San Giovanni in Bragora. While the square sits just a short walk from…
Castello Residential Neighborhoods
Escape the high-season crowds to walk the quiet, washing-line-draped alleyways of Venice's easternmost district, where local life still plays out around ancient wellheads and neighborhood squares.
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1. Campo Bandiera e Moro
2. Campo Do Pozzi
Campo dei Do Pozzi, or the Campo of the Two Wellheads, sits in the Castello district with a single stone wellhead resting at its center. While the name suggests a pair of wells, the square features only one today. This surviving wellhead…
3. Campo San Francesco della Vigna
The Church of San Francesco della Vigna is recognizable by its grand white stone facade, designed by Andrea Palladio, which features massive Corinthian columns set upon high plinths. This church in the Castello district takes its name from…
4. Arsenale di Venezia
The Arsenale di Venezia is defined by a massive, fortified wall that once kept the greatest industrial secret of the medieval world shielded from prying eyes. Spanning roughly sixty acres, this complex served as the naval engine of the…
5. Via Giuseppe Garibaldi
Via Giuseppe Garibaldi stands out in Venice for its unusual width, a feature that feels at odds with the city’s narrow, winding alleys. This wide, straight passage was created in eighteen oh seven by filling in an existing canal that once…
6. Serra dei Giardini
The Serra dei Giardini is an elegant Art Nouveau structure of glass and green-painted steel that sits at the end of the long Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi. Built in eighteen ninety-four, it was originally known as the Serra Margherita and…
7. Campo San Piero de Casteo
Campo San Pietro di Castello is one of the few squares in Venice covered in grass rather than stone, an open expanse that stretches before the tall, elegant bell tower clad entirely in Istrian stone. This island, once known as Olivolo,…