Self-guided walking tour

Venice Walking Tour: Dorsoduro – Art, Palaces and Gondola Yards (about 4 hours, 7 stops)

7 stops in walking order through Venice, from Ca' Dario to Campo Santa Margherita: 1.8 km on foot, about 21 min of walking, 3 h 50 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Dorsoduro: Art, Palaces and Gondola Yards”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.

Total: 3 h 50 min
Distance: 1.8 km
Walking: 21 min
Stops: 7

The stops, in walking order

Ca' Dario
A marble-faced palace beside the Grand Canal, attributed to Pietro Lombardo and altered from Venetian Gothic into Renaissance form.
2 min walk · 190 m
Santa Maria della Salute
A Roman Catholic basilica at Punta della Dogana, designed by Baldassare Longhena as a thanksgiving for deliverance from plague.
3 min walk · 250 m
Collezione Peggy Guggenheim
An art museum housed in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, the former home of Peggy Guggenheim on Venice’s Grand Canal.
5 min walk · 400 m
Gallerie dell'Accademia
Gallerie dell’Accademia is a museum gallery of Venetian and regional art housed in a historic complex of a former confraternity building, church, and convent.
3 min walk · 270 m
Squero de San Trovaso
A working Venetian boatyard in a building shaped like a mountain home, an unusual form in Venice linked to its craftsmen’s Cadore origins.
7 min walk · 590 m
Museo Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico is a Grand Canal palazzo and art museum devoted to Venice's eighteenth-century culture.
1 min walk · 110 m
Campo Santa Margherita
A long Venetian square in Dorsoduro and a meeting place for students and younger visitors.