Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Begun in 1565 and completed in 1610, this dazzling Benedictine abbey church owes more to ancient Roman temples than the bombastic baroque of Palladio's…
Must-see attractions in Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
In 1951, industrialist and art patron Vittorio Cini – a survivor of Dachau – acquired the monastery of San Giorgio and restored it in memory of his son,…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Once part of a boarding school, 'The Glass Rooms' are now home to a constant flow of temporary exhibitions, all of them based on glass. Often the displays…
Monastero di San Lazzaro degli Armeni
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Tours of this historic island monastery are usually conducted by its multilingual Armenian monks, who amply demonstrate the institution’s reputation for…
Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Built to celebrate the city’s deliverance from the Black Death, Palladio's Il Redentore was completed under Antonio da Ponte (of Rialto Bridge fame) in…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Tucked away in an old industrial complex, this fascinating contemporary-art gallery has long championed local artists, such as Mariateresa Sartori, but it…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Situated at the northeastern end of the Lido, this wide, sandy beach is arguably the island's best. It's popular with Venetian families and there are…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Eugenio Miozzi’s angular, Rationalist ‘Palace of Cinema’ was in keeping with the ambitious modernism of the early 1930s, when business tycoon and Fascist…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Four female saints were venerated in the original AD 890 church here, but Saints Dorothy, Tecla and Erasma weren’t as popular as early Christian martyr…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
The Lido is no longer the glamorous bolthole of Hollywood starlets and European aristocracy that it once was, but its groomed beaches, scattering of art…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
As well as a poignant collection of patients' before-and-after photos, this small museum contains the full paraphernalia of psychiatric treatment of the…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Designed by Palladio in the late 16th century and built after his death, the Zitelle was a church and almshouse for orphans and poor young women (zitelle…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
This overgrown graveyard was Venice’s main Jewish cemetery from 1386 until the 18th century. Tombstones range in design from Venetian Gothic to distinctly…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Stretching south of Lido and repeating its skinny shape, Pellestrina reminds you what the lagoon might have been like if Venice had never been dreamed of…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Right at the southern tip of the island, the Alberoni pine forest slopes down to the Lido’s wildest stretch of beach, home to wildflowers, the fratino …
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
This vast belle époque hotel once epitomised Lido glamour, but it's been boarded up since 2016 – an oversized symbol of the beach resort's fall from…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Pass over Ponte di Borgo to explore the canals and calli (lanes) of a less overwhelming lagoon town. A miniature version of Venice right down to the lions…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Founded to promote local artists of all kinds, this quirky and welcoming gallery displays (and sells) a wide range of works by both established and young…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Sandy beach with all the usual facilities at the southern end of the Lido.
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
An area of 'free beach', accessed through the Blue Moon complex.
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Named after a glamorous nightclub that once stood on the beach, the Blue Moon serves the spiaggia comunale (public beach) at the northern end of the Lido…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Nonprofit Spazio Punch has transformed Giudecca's derelict beer factory into an occasional venue for temporary art, design and fashion events, which take…
Grande Albergo Ausonia & Hungaria
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
The Lido's take on art nouveau reaches an over-the-top apotheosis in this garish 1907 hotel, decorated with wreath-bearing cherubs and tiles in a…
