Secret Cannaregio
Half a day away from the crowds, from the church where Tintoretto is buried to the museum of the Ghetto, through courtyards and quaysides where Venice stops posing for photographs.
Cannaregio · 210 min · 2.4 km · Easy
The stops
Sacca della Misericordia
Where the houses stop and the open lagoon begins. The quietest point on the walk, and the only one that looks north with nothing in the way.
Free · 15 points
Foto: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Madonna dell'Orto
Tintoretto's own parish church: he filled it with canvases ten metres high, then had himself buried a few steps from them. Half an hour, and usually with nobody else in there.
Free · 30 min · 15 points · 3 min walk
Foto: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Campo dei Mori
A small square with no trees, and four stone figures built into the house walls. They were here before Venice was a power, and one carries the marks of every hand that has touched it.
Free · 20 points · 2 min walk
Foto: Doris Antony, Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ponte Chiodo
A stone bridge you cross with nothing to hold on to: the last one left in the city with no parapet, and on the far side there is no street, only somebody's front door.
Free · 15 points · optional · 6 min walk
Foto: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Corte dei Pali
A working courtyard with its wellhead still in the middle: octagonal marble, leaves carved into the medallions, and a bolted metal lid on top. Every house around it drank from here.
Free · 10 points · 3 min walk
Foto: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Campo del Ghetto Nuovo
The tallest square in Venice, and not as a figure of speech: you count more floors here than anywhere else in the city. Two low passages are all that join it to the rest.
Free · 20 points · 11 min walk
Foto: h_laca · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Jewish Museum of Venice
Reopened in October 2026 after seven years of work. From the museum you walk into three of the Ghetto's five synagogues, and you understand why you cannot see them from outside.
timed entry · 75 min · 30 points · 1 min walk
Foto: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tickets on the museum's site · €18.00
Ponte dei Tre Archi
The last bridge before the lagoon, and the only one in Venice you do not cross on a single span. You can pick it out from a distance, and from it the canal opens out.
Free · 15 points · 9 min walk
Foto: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
+ 20 points — bonus for finishing the route