Toghether with Castello it's the largest of the sestieri of Venice. Really there is an open-war between the two sestieri for who is the largest, because Cannaregio has the highest street numbers but Castello has S. Elena with a different numeration. Cannaregio starts from the other side of the canal of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, the bridges are the border line...

The maps shows Venice shaped like a fish and castello is it's tail. Is the largest and most varied of the six sestieri and also, most importantly , the home of Arsenal, which stands behind its high towers, a forbidden city within a city. The northern part of the sestiere was controlled by mendicant orders, whose caritable institutions prolifereted...

The sestiere of Dorsoduro covers Venice's southern flanc, including the island of Giudecca. The name of this island has a particular history: as it was the island where were isolated the prisoners, the name derives from Dante's Divine Comedy in which the Giudecca is the last circle of Hell where there are the benefactor's betrayer. The name Dorsoduro...

In the northwest of Venice it covers 94 acres. It has two very distinct areas; the eastside is very old and typically Venetian; a walk down here takes away from crowds. During thr last two centuries some industrial complex have appeared near the old buildings, and in somecases have repleaced them. Nowadays is commercially important because it links Venice...

It is the smallest sestiere but is as little as a precious diamond that has the most beautiful buildings of Venice and even of the world. As you arrive in Saint Marco's square you have reached the center of the sestiere; now place yourself in the middle of the square and think to yourself that you are in the most beautifull place in the world surrounded...

Enclose by the wide loop of the Grand Canal, San polo is Venice's smallest sestiere but it includes the most lively part of Venice: Rialto. According to the tradition Rialto, since remotest time, was one of the oldest centres of life in the Venetian islands, where the first inhabitants, having escaped from the mainland, availing themselves the firmer and...