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Ready-made walk · Venice

Dorsoduro: Art, Palaces and Gondola Yards

7 stops · ~3 hr 50 min · 1.8 km

Art & Museums

Explore the art-filled side of the Grand Canal, from the old masters of the Gallerie dell’Accademia to Peggy Guggenheim’s modern collection, the marble-faced Ca’ Dario and Santa Maria della Salute. Then visit a working gondola yard at San Trovaso and Ca’ Rezzonico’s eighteenth-century Venice, ending in lively Campo Santa Margherita.

The stops, in walking order

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Stop 1: Ca' Dario
~3 min here
Ca' Dario is the marble-faced palace beside the Grand Canal, between Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff and the narrow Rio delle Torreselle.
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Stop 2: Santa Maria della Salute
~15 min here
Santa Maria della Salute is the great church rising from Punta della Dogana, a Roman Catholic basilica known locally as La Salute.
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Stop 3: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim
~1 hr here
The Collezione Peggy Guggenheim is an art museum inside Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished palace on Venice’s Grand Canal.
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Stop 4: Gallerie dell'Accademia
~1 hr here
The Gallerie dell’Accademia is a museum gallery devoted to pre-19th-century art in Venice, and this complex brings together a former confraternity building, a church, and a convent.
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Stop 5: Squero de San Trovaso
~3 min here
Squero de San Trovaso is a working Venetian boatyard, housed in an unusual building shaped like a mountain home.
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Stop 6: Museo Ca' Rezzonico
~1 hr here
Ca' Rezzonico is the palazzo you see beside the Grand Canal, and it now houses an art museum devoted to Venice in the 18th century.
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Stop 7: Campo Santa Margherita
~3 min here
Campo Santa Margherita opens out as a long Venetian square in Dorsoduro, known today as a meeting place for students and younger visitors.