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| A map of Venice with the location of the
apartment. The house is the gray one, in the left of the
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The district of Cannaregio
Cannaregio is one of the six historical districts of Venice
(sestrieri). The main canal of the neighbourhood (canale di Cannaregio),
is directly linked with Canal Grande, it is very active, you will see
gondole, row boats, and the bus-boat that links the various districts of
the city. The architecture in the area is wonderful.
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| Two images of the canal of
Cannaregio |
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To see in the
area:
Church Madonna dell'orto
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One of the more
beautiful churches of Venice, famous for its frescoes by Tintoretto:
"the Last Judgment ", "the Vision of the Cross to St Peter", "the
Beheading of St Paul", "Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple".
In the family chapel in the right side of the alter, there are the
graves of the artist and his sons. You can fint this church in the
upper part of the map, in the center. Its name is due to a
miacoulous image of the virgin, that a sculptor put in the garden of
his house, and that was soon venerated by the inhabitants of the
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New Gueto
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It is probably
the first jewish gueto in the world, it is in a little island in the
district of Cannaregio. It was made in 1516, and its inhabitants
where locked inside for the night, and had a list of limitation to
their social and economical activities. Centuries later it was so
overcrowded, that in 1797 its inhabitants got permission to live in
other districts of the city.
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