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Streets, Squares and Gardens

Some people who have never been to Venice imagine that you can only get around the city by boat, which is hardly the case: you can walk everywhere in the six main sestiere. Venice, however, has its own unique terms for its streets and square; see Street Talk.

Piazza San Marco

Seeing Venice

Canals, squares and palazzi

Around San Giovanni Crisostomo

Byzantine bits and bobs, and silk

Around Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Pretty lanes by a pretty church

Around Santi Apostoli

With some well known palazzi

Campo Bandiera e Moro

Named after three anti-Austrian plotters

Campo dei Mori

Three 'Moors' and a camel, too

Campo Manin

Square with one of Venice's newer lions

Campo San Bartolomeo

Leading to the Rialto Bridge

Campo San Polo

Neighbourhood social centre and outdoor cinema

Campo San Salvador

Busy crossroads

Campo Santa Margherita

Dorsodoro's favourite meeting place

Campo Santo Stefano

A major crossroads near the Accademia bridge

Campo Sant’Angelo

and the leaning tower of Santo Stefano

Casa Museo Andrich

Dreamy idyll on Torcello

Corte dei Milion

Marco Polo's home

Fondamenta degli Ormesini

Good spot for sunsets

Fondamenta della Tana

Near the Arsenale's rope factory

Fondamenta di San Giobbe

Now a university campus

Fondamenta Nove

Titian's old haunts

Fondamenta Savorgnan

Palazzo Savorgnan and the Ponte delle Guglie

Ghetto

Still a community centre

Giardini Pubblici

Venice's park

Lista di Spagna

Pizza and postcards

Mercerie (Marzarie)

North of Piazza San Marco

Piazzale Roma

Car park and bus station

Piazzetta dei Leoncini

Between the Basilica and Clock Tower

Piazzetta San Marco

And its two famous columns

Piazzetta San Marco waterfront

Along The Molo

Rialto and its Markets

The ancient heart of Venice

Riva degli Schiavoni

The Quay of the Dalmatians

Riva del Carbon

For a rare stroll along the Grand Canal

San Barnaba and its Campo

Once the vortex of ruined nobles

San Cassiano and its campo

And the world's first public opera house

San Geremia e Santa Lucia

Last resting place of St Lucy

San Giacometto (San Giacomo di Rialto)

Now the Museo della Musica

San Trovaso and its Campo

And a gondola boatyard, too

San Zaccaria and its Campo

Venice's High Society church

Santa Maria Formosa

Buxom St Mary's

Strada Nuova

A 19th-century street to the train station

Street Talk

How to tell a ramo from a salizzada

Via Giuseppe Garibaldi

Once home of the Cabots

Zattere

Dorsoduro's Promenade

Image by Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls