Quartiere San Giacomo
District of Giudecca
Veneto - Italy

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. The museum was originally the private collection of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim, who began displaying the artworks to the public seasonally in 1951. After her death in 1979. it passed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which eventually opened the collection year-round. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th century palace, which was Guggenheim's home.

Located at 45.4306, 12.3311 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Art museums and galleries in Venice, Guggenheim Museum, Biographical museums in Italy, Women's museums in Italy, Art museums established in 1951, 1951 establishments in Italy

La Fenice

Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous . Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres (to fire and legal problems respectively). Since opening and being named La Fenice, it has burned and been rebuilt twice more.

Located at 45.4333, 12.3331 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Theatres in Venice, Opera houses in Italy, Italian orchestras, Music venues completed in 1837, Music venues completed in 2003

Il Redentore

The Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (English: Church of the Most Holy Redeemer), commonly known as Il Redentore, is a 16th century Roman Catholic church located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It was designed by the architect Andrea Palladio and built as a votive church to thank God for the deliverance of the city from a major outbreak of the plague. Located on the waterfront of the Canale della Giudecca, it dominates the skyline of the island of Giudecca.

Located at 45.425, 12.3325 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Andrea Palladio buildings, Churches in Venice, Domes, Religious buildings completed in 1592, Renaissance architecture in Venice

Santa Maria Zobenigo

The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio is a church in Venice, Italy. The church, whose name translates into St. Mary of the Lily referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation), is more commonly known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the Jubanico family who founded it in the 9th century. The edifice is situated on the Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, west of the Piazza San Marco.

Located at 45.4325, 12.3328 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Religious buildings completed in 1681, Churches in Venice

Santo Stefano, Venice

The Chiesa di Santo Stefano is a large church at the northern end of the Campo Santo Stefano in Venice. It was founded in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th century and altered again early in the 15th century, when the fine gothic doorway and ship's keel roof were added. The tall interior is also Gothic and has three apses. Santo Stefano is parish church of one of the parishes in the Vicariate of San Marco-Castello.

Located at 45.4332, 12.3302 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Churches in Venice, Religious organizations established in the 13th century, Gothic architecture in Veneto

Santa Maria della Salute

The Basilica of St Mary of Health (Italian: Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It stands on a narrow finger of land between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di San Marco making the church visible when entering the Piazza San Marco from the water.

Located at 45.4308, 12.3344 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Religious buildings completed in 1681, Basilica churches in Venice, Votive offering, Baroque architecture in Venice

Giudecca

Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It is part of the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It is a locality of the comune of Venice.

Located at 45.425, 12.3286 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Geography of Venice, Islands of the Venetian Lagoon, Historic Jewish communities

Dorsoduro

Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola. Its name derives from the Italian for "hard ridge", due to its comparatively high, stable land.

Located at 45.431, 12.326 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Sestieri of Venice

Palazzo Barbarigo

Palazzo Barbarigo is a palace in Venice, Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of the city. It was originally built in the 16th century. Today it is one of the more opulent palazzi on the canal, distinguished by its mosaics of Murano glass applied in 1886. At the time it was owned by the proprietors of one of the glass factories, who took their cue from the exterior mosaics on the facade of St Mark's Basilica.

Located at 45.431, 12.3306 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Palaces in Venice, Renaissance architecture in Venice, 16th-century architecture

Accademia

The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th century art in Venice, northern Italy. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and to the boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus. It was originally created as an art school.

Located at 45.4311, 12.3281 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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1340s architecture, 1750 establishments in Italy, Art museums and galleries in Venice, Art museums established in 1750, Art schools in Italy

Ponte dell'Accademia

The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges in Venice, Italy, to span the Grand Canal. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia galleries. The bridge links the sestiere of Dorsoduro and San Marco. First suggested as early as 1488, a bridge was not constructed until 1854.

Located at 45.4316, 12.329 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Bridges completed in 1985, Bridges in Venice, Pedestrian bridges in Italy, Arch bridges, Wooden bridges

Palazzo Malipiero

Palazzo Malipiero is a palace in Venice, Italy. It is located on the Grand Canal in the central Campo San Samuele. It stands just across from Palazzo Grassi Exhibition Center. The adjacent Italian-style garden with a view on the Grand Canal, a rarity in Venice, makes it even more distinctive. Initially built in a Byzantine style, over the centuries it has undergone some modifications.

Located at 45.4331, 12.328 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Palaces in Venice

Gesuati

Santa Maria del Rosario, commonly known as I Gesuati, is an 18th century Dominican church in the Sestiere of Dorsoduro, on the Giudecca canal in Venice, northern Italy. The classical style building has a well-lit interior and is exceptional in preserving its original layout and Rococo decoration intact. The church and almost all its sculpture and paintings were created within the same thirty year period.

Located at 45.4294, 12.3272 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Churches in Venice, 18th-century architecture

Palazzi Barbaro

The Palazzi Barbaro — also known as Palazzo Barbaro, Ca' Barbaro, and Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis — are a pair of adjoining palaces, in the San Marco district of Venice, northern Italy. They were formerly one of the homes of the patrician Barbaro family. The Palazzi are located on the Grand Canal of Venice, next to the Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti and not far from the Ponte dell'Accademia. The buildings are also known as the Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis.

Located at 45.4317, 12.33 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Palaces in Venice, House of Barbaro, Venetian Gothic buildings

Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti

Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is a palace in Venice, Italy, not far from the Ponte dell'Accademia and next to the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal of Venice. Since 1999 it has been the seat of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti and frequently houses cultural events. The palace was erected in 1565. In the 19th century it was internally modernised and externally enriched in Venetian Gothic style, with rich window framing, by a series of grand owners.

Located at 45.4317, 12.3296 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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15th-century architecture, Palaces in Venice, Gothic architecture in Veneto, Venetian Gothic buildings, Gothic Revival architecture in Italy

San Samuele, Venice

San Samuele is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the eponymous campo near Palazzo Grassi and Palazzo Malipiero. The facade is set back on the campo, but faces and is visible from the Grand Canal. It is named after the Biblical Samuel, because in the interior are housed relics traditionally attributed to him. The church was built around 1000 by the families Boldù and Soranzo. In the early 12th centuries it was destroyed by two fires and then reconstructed.

Located at 45.4336, 12.3281 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Churches in Venice, 1680s architecture

Le Zitelle

Le Zitelle (officially Santa Maria della Presentazione) is a church in Venice, Italy. It is part of a former complex which gave shelter to young maidens ("zitelle" in Italian) who had no dowry, and is located in the easternmost part of the Giudecca island. Generally attributed to Andrea Palladio, the original design dates to 1579-1580 and the construction to 1586. Its housing edifice surrounds the church in a horseshoe shape, with a court behind the apse.

Located at 45.4267, 12.3391 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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1580s architecture, Churches in Venice, Renaissance architecture in Venice

Santa Maria della Grazia

Santa Maria della Grazia or La Grazia is an artificial island of the Venetian lagoon, northern Italy, which lies between the Giudecca and San Clemente. It rose during the Middle Ages in the place where Venice’s rubble was discarded up. The island takes its name from a supposedly miraculous Madonna which was on display in its former church. In 1264 there was a home for pilgrims to the Holy Land; later it was transformed into a convent.

Located at 45.4192, 12.3394 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Islands of the Venetian Lagoon

Palazzo Dario

Palazzo Dario is a palace in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of Venice at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle in the Dorsoduro sestiere (quarter) on the Campiello Barbaro. The palace was built in the floral Venetian Gothic style and was renovated with Renaissance features.

Located at 45.4308, 12.3322 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Palaces in Venice, 1470s architecture, Venetian Gothic buildings

San Trovaso

San Trovaso (dedicated to sts. Gervasius and Protasius) is a church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Dorsoduro in Venice, northern Italy. The church dates to at least the 1028. The present church was rebuilt by 1584. The architect was likely Francesco Smeraldi. The church was consecrated in 1637. In the chancel are two canvases, Adoration of the Magi and Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple (before 1587) by Domenico Tintoretto, brought here from the church of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Located at 45.4308, 12.326 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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1580s architecture, Churches in Venice, 1028 establishments

Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore

Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore is a late 15th-century Gothic palace in Venice, Italy, that once belonged to the noble Loredan family. Located in the Dorsoduro sestiere (quarter), it was called "dell'ambasciatore" because it was the home of the ambassadors of the Austrian Empire to the Republic. One Loredan ancestor, Antonio, was the administrator of Corfu who defeated the Turks in 1716, together with Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, a Saxon general.

Located at 45.4328, 12.3272 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Palaces in Venice, Gothic architecture in Veneto, 15th-century architecture, Venetian Gothic buildings

Scuola degli Albanesi

Scuola degli Albanesi (The School of the Albanians) or the Confraternity of Santa Maria of the Albanians, was one of the Minor Scuolas of Venice.

Located at 45.433, 12.3313 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Defunct schools in Italy, Education in Venice, Educational institutions established in the 14th century, Educational institutions established in 1808

San Vidal, Venice

San Vidal (San Vitale) is a former church, and now and event and concert hall in Venice, Italy, located near the Accademia Bridge. A church at the site was erected in the year 1084 by Doge Vitale Falier. In was reconstructed in the 17th century using designs Antonio Gaspari. It was rebuilt in 1696 to honor the former Doge Francesco Morosini. On the facade (1734-37), designed by Tirali, are statues of Doge Contarini and his wife.

Located at 45.4325, 12.3294 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Churches in Venice, 1079 establishments

San Maurizio, Venice

The Church of San Maurizio in Venice is located in the sestiere of San Marco, in the campo San Maurizio. A church was present at the site at the time of the first reconstruction in the 16th century. A further reconstruction took place in 1806. It once housed a studio of a young Antonio Canova. Near the church was built the scuola degli Albanesi. The present church is mainly a design of the Neoclassic architect Giovanni Antonio Selva.

Located at 45.433, 12.3316 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Palazzo Ficquelmont-Clary

The Palazzo Ficquelmont-Clary is a Late Renaissance Venitian palace facing the Giudecca Canal alongside the fondamenta Zattere by the ponte longo in Venice's Dorsoduro. It was originally built in the 17th century, before it became the Venitian home of the counts de Ficquelmont in the 19th century. It is named Palazzo Ficquelmont-Clary after its owners as the palace was bequeathed to count Charles-Louis de Ficquelmont's daughter and heiress, princess Elisex von Clary-Aldringen.

Located at 45.4302, 12.3245 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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