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The world's first Jewish ghetto and Venice's complicated history, told by a personal guide.
Listen to in-depth explanations from your own personal guide on the origin of the term "ghetto" and the neighborhood's hidden landmarks, with Jewish Museum and Synagogue admission included.
A private walking tour of Venice's Jewish district — the origin of the term "ghetto" — with in-depth explanations from your personal guide of its hidden landmarks and complicated history. Admission tickets to the Jewish Museum and Synagogue are included.
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 a Cannaregio meeting point in Venice.
Learn why this Venetian neighborhood gave the word to the world.
Admission tickets are part of the tour.
Your guide walks you back to a convenient point near your hotel.
Listen to in-depth explanations from your own personal guide on the origin of the term "ghetto" and the neighborhood's hidden landmarks, with Jewish Museum and Synagogue admission included. A private walking tour of Venice's Jewish district — the origin of the term "ghetto" — with in-depth explanations from your personal guide of its hidden landmarks and complicated history. Admission tickets to the Jewish Museum and Synagogue are included.
On 29 March 1516, the Venetian Senate ordered the city's Jewish residents to live on a small, canal-locked island in Cannaregio known as the Ghetto Nuovo — gated and guarded at night, it became the first enforced Jewish ghetto in Europe. The name itself has a mundane origin: "geto" (or "ghèto") was the Venetian word for the copper foundry that had operated on the site before, not a Hebrew term as sometimes assumed, though scholars have debated the etymology for years. As Venice's Jewish community grew, a second island, the Ghetto Vecchio, was added in 1541.
Confined to a tight footprint that could only grow upward, the community built some of Venice's tallest residential buildings of the era — six and seven storeys in a city where most buildings stayed low. Five synagogues went up between the 16th and 17th centuries, each built for a different community within the Ghetto — German, Italian, Levantine, Spanish, and Canton — and several remain active places of worship today. The Jewish Museum, included on this tour, sits at the heart of the same square where those communities first settled.
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