Venice Trip Overview
Discover the fishbone-like shape Giudecca island, known to be Venice’s unofficial seventh sestiere, once an aristocratic retreat, later the city industrial centre and nowadays a trendy artistic district.
Let’s walk through the largest and closest island to Venice, from which it is separated by the broad and deep Giudecca Canal enjoying breath-taking views on the splendid city.
The peacefulness of the island also made it popular among religious communities and with patrician families who built palaces with lovely gardens and allotments there. You will see how after the fall of the Republic, these areas were converted into warehouses, barracks, prisons, factories and workers’ quarters, some of them nowadays converted for artistic ad modern purposes. You will be walking not only through the long pedestrian quay running the length of its Venice-facing side but also wandering its hidden lagoon-facing side with gardens, art galleries and residential neighbourhoods.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Venice, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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Discover the fishbone-like shape Giudecca island, known to be Venice’s unofficial seventh sestiere, once an aristocratic retreat, later the city industrial centre and nowadays a trendy artistic district.
Let’s walk through the largest and closest island to Venice, from which it is separated by the broad and deep Giudecca Canal enjoying breath-taking views on the splendid city.
The peacefulness of the island also made it popular among religious communities and with patrician families who built palaces with lovely gardens and allotments there. You will see how after the fall of the Republic, these areas were converted into warehouses, barracks, prisons, factories and workers’ quarters, some of them nowadays converted for artistic ad modern purposes. You will be walking not only through the long pedestrian quay running the length of its Venice-facing side but also wandering its hidden lagoon-facing side with gardens, art galleries and residential neighbourhoods.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Giudecca, Giudecca, Veneto
Giudecca disputed history begins with its name. We will learn that its name does not come from one time jewish inhanbitants (an italian word for Jews is also Giudei) but from a Venetian word “zudega” meaning “the judged”, referring to rebel aristocratic families banished here during the 9th century. In recent years, the large abandoned spaces attracted a new set of exiles: artists, who could no longer afford rents in central venice for their lofts and studios.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Fondamenta Sant’Eufemia, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy
We will visit a AD 890 church with a simple Veneto-Byzantine structure dated from 14th century. It is named after a Byzantine Christan martyr, who was thrown to hungry lions, which, after biting off her hand they refused to eat her holy virgin flesh.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hilton Molino Stucky Venice, Giudecca, 810, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy
We will discover a huge Neo-Gothic building, who served as a flour mill supplied by boats across the lagoon and also operated as a pasta factory and as of today, it houses a luxury 5-star hotel.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Calle Convertite, C. Convertite, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy
We will get lost in the hidden part of the island, passing by an organic prison market, adjacent to a women’s correction facility.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Artisti Artigiani del Chiostro – Ex Convento SS. Cosma e Damiano, C. S. Cosmo, 620, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy
We will enter a former monastery, nowadays a center for promotion of local artists and artisans of all kind.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Teatro Junghans, Giudecca 494/B, Venice Italy
we will see how a former factory for glasses has been converted to a modern residential neighbourhood and a contemporary theatre facing the southern lagoon.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore, Campo Santissimo Redentore 1 Giudecca, 30133 Venice Italy
We will admire a church designed by Palladio, built to celebrate the city’s deliverance from the black death. Survival is never taken for granted in this tidal town and to give thanks every July Venetian have been mking the pilgrimage acroos the canal to this church on a shaky pontoon bridge from the Zattere since 1578
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Villa Heriot, Calle Michelangelo 54/p Isola della Giudecca, 30133 Venice Italy
We will enter an Art Noveau villa off the beaten paths, enjoying breath-taking views over the southern lagoon.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Casa dei Tre Oci, Fondamenta de Le Zitelle Giudecca 43 Giudecca Island, 30133 Venice Italy
We will end up our tour with scenic views on San Marco and Punta della Salute, walking by a palace with a distinctive neo gothic brick facade and three peculiar arched windows.
Duration: 15 minutes
