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Dorsoduro

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Location of Dorsoduro within Venice
Location of Dorsoduro within Venice
Shady canal in Dorsoduro, Venice
Shady canal in Dorsoduro, Venice
The Watercolorist in the Campo San Gregorio.
The Watercolorist in the Campo San Gregorio.

Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy.

Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola. Its name derives from the Italian for "hard ridge", due to its comparatively high, stable land.

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Main sights

Landmarks and visitor attractions in Dorsoduro include:

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Ca' Foscari

Ca' Foscari

Ca' Foscari, the palace of the Foscari family, is a Gothic building on the waterfront of the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.

Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista Tiepolo. It is a public museum dedicated to 18th-century Venice and one of the 11 venues managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

Campo San Barnaba

Campo San Barnaba

Campo San Barnaba is a campo (square) in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. The neighborhood's church is the San Barnaba.

Gallerie dell'Accademia

Gallerie dell'Accademia

The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which the Ponte dell'Accademia and the Accademia boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili.

Il Redentore

Il Redentore

The Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore, commonly known as Il Redentore, is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located on Giudecca (island) in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, in the city of Venice, Italy.

Le Zitelle

Le Zitelle

Le Zitelle is a church in Venice, Italy. It is part of a former complex which gave shelter to young maidens who had no dowry, and is in the easternmost part of the Giudecca island.

Palazzo Ariani

Palazzo Ariani

Palazzo Ariani, also known as Palazzo Ariani Minotto Cicogna, is a palace in Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district, almost opposite to the church of Angelo San Raffaele and not far from San Sebastiano. The nearby bridge Ponte del Soccorso connects it to the Palazzo Zenobio.

Palazzo Brandolin Rota

Palazzo Brandolin Rota

Palazzo Brandolin Rota is a palace in Venice, Italy, located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Grand Canal, between the Gallerie dell'Accademia and Palazzo Contarini Polignac.

Palazzo Dario

Palazzo Dario

The Palazzo Dario is a palace located between the Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff and the narrow Rio delle Torreselle on the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, of the city of Venice, Italy. The palace was built in the Venetian Gothic style and was renovated in Renaissance style.

Palazzo Giustinian Recanati

Palazzo Giustinian Recanati

Palazzo Giustinian Recanati is a palace in Venice, Italy, located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Giudecca Canal, just to the left of Palazzo Clary.

Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara

Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara

Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara is a palace in Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Grand Canal, between the Contarini Palazzi degli Scrigni and Corfù and Palazzo Querini alla Carità, not far from the Gallerie dell'Accademia and in front of Palazzo Giustinian Lolin.

Carmini

Carmini

Santa Maria dei Carmini, also called Santa Maria del Carmelo and commonly known simply as the Carmini, is a large Roman Catholic church in the sestiere, or neighbourhood, of Dorsoduro in Venice, northern Italy. It nestles against the former Scuola Grande di Santa Maria del Carmelo, also known as the Scuola dei Carmini. This charitable confraternity was officially founded in 1597, and arose from a lay women's charitable association, the Pinzocchere dei Carmini. The members of this lay group were associated as tertiaries to the neighbouring Carmelite monastery. They were responsible for stitching the scapulars for the Carmelites.

Source: "Dorsoduro", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, July 21st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsoduro.

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