Rialto to the Salute
Across the Grand Canal, the best of San Polo and Dorsoduro: the Rialto Market, Campo San Polo, the Scuola of San Giovanni Evangelista, the Frari, San Rocco, San Pantalon, Campo Santa Margherita, San Sebastiano, Ponte dei Pugni, Ca' Rezzonico, the Grand Canal, the Squero, the Zattere, the Accademia, the Guggenheim, the Salute and Punta della Dogana.
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Route stops
- 1Rialto Market
Venice's oldest market (since 1097), with a neo-Gothic fish market and fruit and vegetable stalls.
0.6 km·8 min - 2Campo San Polo
Venice's second-largest square, venue for open-air cinema in summer and Carnival events.
0.5 km·7 min - 3Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
One of Venice's six great confraternities, founded in the 13th century, with a fragment of the True Cross.
0.3 km·4 min - 4Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Venice's largest church, housing Titian's Assumption and Canova's mausoleum.
0.1 km·2 min - 5Scuola Grande di San Rocco
The 'Sistine Chapel of Venice': 60 Tintoretto canvases painted over 24 years in the 16th century.
0.2 km·3 min - 6Church of San Pantalon
Church believed to have the world's largest canvas painting covering its entire ceiling.
0.2 km·3 min - 7Campo Santa Margherita
Venice's liveliest local square, center of Dorsoduro's university district with a market and bars.
0.5 km·7 min - 8Church of San Sebastiano
Church with Veronese's complete fresco cycle, considered his masterpiece, and where he is buried.
0.4 km·6 min - 9Ponte dei Pugni
17th-century bridge where rival clans held fist fights to knock opponents into the canal.
0.3 km·4 min - 10Ca' Rezzonico
Baroque palace housing the Museum of 18th-Century Venice, with Tiepolo frescoes and period furniture.
0.3 km·4 min - 1.0 km·13 min
- 12Squero di San Trovaso
One of Venice's last traditional gondola boatyards, active since the 17th century.
0.3 km·4 min - 13Fondamenta delle Zattere
Long waterfront promenade in Dorsoduro facing Giudecca island, ideal for sunset strolls.
0.2 km·3 min - 14Gallerie dell'Accademia
The world's largest collection of Venetian painting, with works by Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese.
0.2 km·3 min - 15Accademia Bridge
Wooden bridge over the Grand Canal with Venice's most photographed view toward Santa Maria della Salute.
0.4 km·5 min - 16Peggy Guggenheim Collection
One of Europe's finest modern art collections, in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal.
0.2 km·3 min - 17Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute
Baroque church built in 1631 as a votive offering after the plague, an icon of Venice's skyline.
0.2 km·3 min - 18Punta della Dogana
Former maritime customs house converted into a Pinault Foundation contemporary art center.
