Sestiere Cannaregio, Venice

Sestiere Cannaregio is one of the six sestieri or neighborhood of Venice. It is the northernmost of the sestieri of the city. This sestiere is the second largest as well as the most populous in Venice.

Sestiere Cannaregio is located on the northern bank of the Grand Canal, bounded by Sestiere Castello to the east and Sestiere San Marco the south. It is across the Grand Canal from Sestiere Santa Croce and Sestiere San Polo to the south. Also within the administration of this sestiere is an outlying island, Isola di San Michele.

Canale di Cannaregio
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The Ponte della Liberta is the bridge connecting Cannaregio to mainland Italy. It takes a railway and a road across the lagoon. The railway terminates at the Venezia Santa Lucia Railway Station. The road terminates at Isola Nuova, literally "new island", a man-make island on Sestiere Santa Croce.

Although the buildings along the Grand Canal are often imposing, those in the inner parts of the sestiere are often smallish. This is because Sestiere Cannaregio developed as a working-class neighborhood.

Cannaregio is also the location of the Venetian Ghetto, the enclave in which Jews were compelled to live during the time of the Venetian Republic (AD 697-1797). This was how the word ghetto, which means slag (a by-product of smelting ore) in Venetian, crept into common use to mean a slum area. Even though some of the Jews in Venice held high positions as merchants, physicians and money lenders, they were all subjected to a dusk-to-dawn curfew within the Venetian Ghetto. It was only after Napoleon Bonaparte conquered the city that he gave Jews the freedom to live anywhere they choose in Venice.

Path to the Venetian Ghetto, Sestiere Cannaregio
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Places of Interest in Sestiere Cannaregio

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