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a Exploring Eastern Castello

This peaceful stroll takes you from the animated
Castello quayside to the quieter eastern limits of
the city. The focal point of the tour is the solitary
island of San Pietro di Castello, site of the former
cathedral of Venice. From here you head south to
the island of Sant’Elena with its historic church and
Venice’s football stadium, and return via the public
gardens along the scenic waterfront.

Then take the first on the y The calm and leafy Giardini Pubblici
left, marked “Calle San
Gioachin”, cross a small CALLE LARGA CAMPO
SAN
bridge and turn left at the SALIZZADA STRETTA DE CASTELLO PIETRO 6
“crossroads”. Once you are past 7
Campo Ruga 5, take the 8
second turning on the right and 5
cross the bridge over the broad FMTA RIELLO Rio detto C a n a l e d i
Canale di San Pietro. Rio San Daniele QUINTAVALLE
FMTA
Tana C CROCERA
della
FMTA DELLA TANA Riello
Rio
F M T A S G I O C H I N PONTE DI 9
QUINTAVALLE
Rio di Sant'Anna
4
FOND SANT'ANNA 0
C NUOVA
i A tribute to the women V I A G A R I B A L D I
fallen in World War II S BIAGIO 3
RIVA
1 C COPPO S a n P i e t r o
2 SHIAVONA
Via Garibaldi PEDROCCHI C CALLE CORRERA CALLE TIEPOLO
This broad, busy street 1 was CORTE
created by Napoleon in 1808 by The RIVA DEI SETTE MARTIRI COLONNE CALLE CALLE SAN DOMENICO V I A L E G A R I B A L D I CORTE SARESIN FURLANE CALLE DELLE S E C C O M A R I N A
filling in a canal. The first house Island of S A N G I U S E P P E
on the right 2 was the home of San Pietro
R i o d i S a n G i u s e p p e
John Cabot and his son di Castello FO NDAMENTA
Sebastian, the Italian navigators The old church of San q w
RIO TERRA
who in 1497 found what they Pietro di Castello 6 and its GIARDINI SAN GIUSEPPE
thought to be the coast of China freestanding, tilting campanile PUBBLICI
(but in reality was the Labrador 7 overlook a grassy square. Giardini PALUDO S ANTONIO
coast of Newfoundland). Near The island, once occupied by i
the end of the street, through a a fortress (castello), was one of R I V A D E I P A RT I G I A N I BIENNALE
gate on the right, a bronze Venice’s earliest settlements. Chapel, the V I A L E T R E N T O INTERNAZIONALE Rio dei Giardini
D'ARTE
y
monument of Garibaldi 3 by The church, which was Vendramin u V I A L E Q U AT T R O N O V E M B R E
Augusto Benvenuti (1885) marks probably founded in the 7th Chapel and the
the northern end of the Viale century, became the cathedral marble throne from CALLE OSLAVIA
Garibaldi, which leads to the of Venice and remained so until an Arabic tombstone, CALLE DEL SABO T INO V I A
public gardens. 1807, when San Marco took its originally said to have CAMPO
Returning to Via Garibaldi, place (see p82). The existing been the Seat of St Peter. e Rio di S Elena SPORTIVO
take the left-hand embankment church, built to a Palladian In the south of the square, C GEN CHINOTTO C PODGORA L E P I A V E CAMPO
DELLA
CHIESA
at the end of the street, pausing design in the mid-16th century, Mauro Coducci’s elegant stone CALLE ZU G NA t
on the bridge 4 for distant has several notable features. campanile was built in 1482–8, CALLE F PASSARELLA V I ALE SA NT ' E L E N A
F O N D A M E N TA S A N T ' E L E N A
views of the Arsenale (see p123). These include the Lando and the cupola was added in PARCO C ROVERETO
1670. Beside the church, the RIMEMBRANZE r
D ELLE
Palazzo Patriarcale (Bishop’s C BUCCARI
Palace) 8 was turned into V I A L E P I A V E
barracks by Napoleon. The old SPORTIVO
CAMPO
cloisters are overgrown and V I A L E V I T T O R I O V E N E T O VIALE QUATTRO NOVEMBRE
strung with washing and
fishing nets.
From the Bishop’s Palace,
take the Calle drio il Campanile Sant’ Elena
south from the square and turn
left when you come to the
canal. The first turning right
2 The busy Via Garibaldi, with John Cabot’s house on the far right takes you across the Ponte di
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