Venice Jewish Ghetto Self-Guided Audio Walk: Synagogues, Campo dei Mori and Madonna dell'Orto

Your Experience

In 1516 the Venetian Republic ordered the city's Jews to live on one small island in Cannaregio, behind gates that shut at night, paying rents a third higher and the wages of their own guards. Venice let people in on its own terms.

Enter through the Ghetto passage, see the Levantine and Spanish synagogues face each other in the Old Ghetto, and spot the New Ghetto's synagogues by their windows across the square. Then follow Cannaregio's canals to the stone merchants of Campo dei Mori, Tintoretto's house and his church, Madonna dell'Orto.

The Shoah memorial and the deportations of 1943 and 1944 are told plainly and with care.

Eleven stops over about 1.4 km, about 75 minutes, with seven bridges, all with steps. Ends at Campo de l'Abazia near the Ca' d'Oro vaporetto stop. Museum and synagogue admission is not included; the Jewish Museum is closed on Saturdays. Every stop works from outside.