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What to see in Venice on foot

50 sights worth the detour, all walkable, all offline.

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Venice is a city made for walking. This self-guided guide maps 50 of its sights worth the detour — landmarks, historic sites, viewpoints, museums and galleries and public art — the places locals point to and the tour buses skip, close enough to string into a single day on foot. Download the Venice pack in Voyage GO before you go and the whole route works offline: no roaming, no dead battery from a live map. Every monument, viewpoint and park you pass quietly fills your travel passport.

Landmarks18

  1. 1Teatro La Fenice
  2. 2Scuola Grande dei CarminiThe Scuola Grande dei Carmini is a confraternity building in Venice, Italy.
  3. 3Scala Contarini del BovoloThe Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo is a small palazzo in Venice, Italy, best known for its external multi-arch spiral staircase known as the Scala Contarini del Bovolo.
  4. 4Scuola Grande di San Teodoro
  5. 5Chiesa di San TrovasoSan Trovaso is a church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Dorsoduro in Venice, northern Italy.
  6. 6Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli
  7. 7Basilica di San MarcoBasilica di San Marco may refer to:Basilica di San Marco (Florence) Basilica di San Marco (Rome) Basilica di San Marco (Venice).
  8. 8Santa Maria della SaluteSanta Maria della Salute, commonly known simply as La Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at the Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.
  9. 9Ponte dei SospiriThe Bridge of Sighs is a bridge in Venice, Italy.
  10. 10Procuratie NuoveThe Procuratie are three connected buildings along the perimeter of Saint Mark's Square in Venice, Italy.
  11. 11Chiesa di San MoisèThe Chiesa di San Moisè is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in Venice, northern Italy.
  12. 12Chiesa di Santa Maria FormosaSanta Maria Formosa, formally The Church of the Purification of Mary, is a church in Venice, northern Italy.
  13. 13Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei FrariThe Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, commonly abbreviated to the Frari, is a church located in the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district of Venice, Italy.
  14. 14Squero de San Trovaso
  15. 15Chiesa di San Rocco
  16. 16Basilica dei santi Giovanni e Paolo
  17. 17Chiesa di San ZaccariaThe Church of San Zaccaria is a 15th-century former monastic church in central Venice.
  18. 18Piazza San MarcoPiazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza.

Historic Sites11

  1. 19Zecca di Venezia
  2. 20Targa commemorativa del telescopio di Galileo
  3. 21Santa Marina
  4. 22Francesco PetrarcaFrancis Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanists.
  5. 23Mausoleo di Domenico Contarini
  6. 24Palazzo Moro
  7. 25Palazzo GiustinianiThe Ca' Giustinian, sometimes called the Palazzo Giustinian, is a palace on the Grand Canal in the San Marco sestiere of Venice, Italy.
  8. 26Palazzo ErizzoPalazzo Erizzo may refer to several palaces in Venice, Italy:Palazzo Erizzo Nani Mocenigo Palazzo Erizzo alla Maddalena Palazzo Erizzo a San Martino Palazzo Bollani Erizzo.
  9. 27Scuola Grande San MarcoThe Scuola Grande di San Marco is a building in Venice, Italy, designed by the well-known Venetian architects Pietro Lombardo, Mauro Codussi, and Bartolomeo Bon.
  10. 28Palazzo Ducale
  11. 29Palazzetto Stern

Viewpoints1

  1. 30Campanile di San MarcoSt Mark's Campanile is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.

Museums & Galleries15

  1. 31Gallerie dell'AccademiaThe Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.
  2. 32Museo Diocesano
  3. 33Collezione Peggy GuggenheimThe Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.
  4. 34Museo CorrerThe Museo Correr is a museum in Venice, northern Italy.
  5. 35Museo archeologico nazionale di Venezia
  6. 36Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed ArtiThe Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti is an academy of sciences in Venice, Italy.
  7. 37Casa di Carlo GoldoniThe House of Carlo Goldoni, or in Italian, Casa di Carlo Goldoni is a writer's house museum located in a small palace or palazzetto, that served as the residence of the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni.
  8. 38Negozio Olivetti
  9. 39Peggy Guggenheim CollectionThe Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.
  10. 40Fondazione Querini StampaliaThe Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural institution in Venice, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family, Conte Giovanni Querini.
  11. 41Museo di icone
  12. 42Museo Storico NavaleThe Museo Storico Navale is a naval history museum located in the Castello district of Venice, near the Venetian Arsenal.
  13. 43Palazzo Loredan CiniThe Palazzo Loredan Cini is a palace located between the Palazzo Balbi Valier and the Rio San Vio on the Grand Canal, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy.
  14. 44Scuola Grande di San RoccoThe Scuola Grande di San Rocco is a building in Venice, northern Italy.
  15. 45Palazzo GrassiPalazzo Grassi is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice (Italy), between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele.

Public Art5

  1. 46Monumento ai Tetrarchi
  2. 47Il Gobbo di RialtoIl Gobbo di Rialto is a marble statue of a hunchback found opposite the Church of San Giacomo di Rialto at the end of the Rialto in Venice. Sculpted by Pietro da Salò in the 16th century, the statue takes the form of a crouching, naked hunchback supporting a small flight of steps.
  3. 48Cavalli di San Marco
  4. 49L'Angelo della Città
  5. 50Carlo Goldoni

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