The arty, student side — the Accademia and the Guggenheim, the sunny Zattere promenade, and the bars of Campo Santa Margherita where Venice actually goes out. Young, walkable and a little cheaper than San Marco across the water.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
1/3
€100–170
typical per night in Italy
The sensible middle
Cheapest in VenicePriciest
Typical prices for Venice — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is Dorsoduro and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
Venice Marco Polo (VCE)~15 min drive8.4 km
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- The Grand Canal by vaporetto12 min walk960 m
- A gondola ride12 min walk966 m
- Piazza San Marco13 min walk1.1 km
- The Rialto Bridge13 min walk1.1 km
- The Rialto Market14 min walk1.1 km
- St Mark's Basilica14 min walk1.1 km
- The Doge's Palace14 min walk1.2 km
- Cicchetti & an ombra17 min walk1.4 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 11.Gallerie dell'Accademia — The greatest hoard of Venetian painting anywhere — Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian and Veronese, the colour and light the whole city taught the world. Smaller and calmer than the big Italian galleries; a couple of hours is plenty.
- 12.The Peggy Guggenheim Collection — The heiress's own palace on the Grand Canal, left as one of the finest small modern-art collections in Europe — Pollock, Picasso, Ernst, Magritte — with a sculpture garden by the water. The perfect antidote to Renaissance overload.
- 13.Santa Maria della Salute — The great white domed church at the mouth of the Grand Canal, built in thanks for the end of a plague and now the image every painter of Venice returns to. Free to step inside, and the point where Dorsoduro meets the widest water.
When are you staying?
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