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The word "ghetto" was born here — Venice's Jewish heritage, told with a taste of the neighborhood.
Learn about Venice's Jewish heritage with a passionate local guide, seeing historic synagogues and learning about the impact of the Holocaust on the city, finished with a Jewish pie tasting and a glass of Venetian wine.
A private walking tour of Venice's Jewish Ghetto — where the word "ghetto" originated — seeing historic synagogues and ancient symbols not found in printed guides, with a Jewish pie tasting and a glass of Venetian wine to finish.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your guide at the Jewish Ghetto, Venice.
See the Ghetto's synagogues with a passionate local guide.
Finish the tour with a taste of local Jewish-Venetian food.
Your guide walks you back to a convenient point near your hotel.
Learn about Venice's Jewish heritage with a passionate local guide, seeing historic synagogues and learning about the impact of the Holocaust on the city, finished with a Jewish pie tasting and a glass of Venetian wine. A private walking tour of Venice's Jewish Ghetto — where the word "ghetto" originated — seeing historic synagogues and ancient symbols not found in printed guides, with a Jewish pie tasting and a glass of Venetian wine to finish.
Five synagogues, built between the 16th and 17th centuries for five different communities — German, Italian, Levantine, Spanish, and Canton — are packed into a space smaller than many single city blocks elsewhere in Europe. That's because the neighborhood itself, the Ghetto Nuovo and the later Ghetto Vecchio (added in 1541), is where the word "ghetto" entered the language in the first place: Venice's Senate confined the city's Jewish residents here in 1516, naming the site after "geto," the Venetian word for the copper foundry that had stood there before.
The neighborhood's more recent history is harder, and worth telling plainly. During the Nazi occupation, over 200 Venetian Jews were rounded up between late 1943 and the summer of 1944 and deported, most of them to Auschwitz-Birkenau; only a handful survived. A memorial of bronze panels in the Ghetto's main square now records the names of those deported. Finishing the walk with a Jewish-Venetian pie and a glass of local wine isn't meant to gloss over that history — it's simply how this neighborhood, which has endured for five centuries, still carries on.
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