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Untypical Venice
Bridge of Sighs is one of Untypical Venice.

1. Bridge of Sighs

8.8
(Ponte dei Sospiri)
Piazza San Marco, Venezia, Venezia, Veneto
Bridge · San Marco · 64 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: Named because prisoners had sighed at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.

St Mark's Basilica is one of Untypical Venice.

2. St Mark's Basilica

9.0
(Basilica di San Marco)
Calle Canonica (San Marco 328), Venezia, Veneto
Church · Piazza San Marco · 202 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: It had been brought with the Fourth Crusade from Constantinople. While travel the statue lost one feet. Whre is it now? In the Istanbul

Campanile di San Marco is one of Untypical Venice.

3. Campanile di San Marco

9.1
Piazza San Marco, Venezia, Veneto
Monument · San Marco · 98 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: The only one fake antiquity in Venice.Got tired and colabsed at the age of more then 1000 years.Rebuilt in 1912

Old Jewish Ghetto is one of Untypical Venice.

4. Old Jewish Ghetto

Venezia, Veneto
Neighborhood · 24 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: In XVI century Jewish were settled on the island. They should wear yellow sight and were prohibited to leave Getto at a night time.

Pescheria del Mercato di Rialto is one of Untypical Venice.

5. Pescheria del Mercato di Rialto

8.2
Campo della Pescaria, Venezia, Veneto
Fish Market · San Polo · 21 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: Here you can buy the freshest fish caught early in the morning. You have nowhere to cook it? Just find many small restaurants where you can ask to prepare seafood, you have bought yourself.

Fermata ACTV Arsenale is one of Untypical Venice.

6. Fermata ACTV Arsenale

Fondamenta dei Forni, Venezia, Veneto
Pier · 3 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: It was a complex of shipyards and armories clustered together in Venice. In 1593, Galileo became an external consultant to the Arsenal, advising military engineers and helping to solve shipbuilders'.

Cimitero di San Michele is one of Untypical Venice.

7. Cimitero di San Michele

Isola S. Michele 1, Venezia, Veneto
Cemetery · 10 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: It became a cemetery in 1807 as burial on the mainland was decreed unsanitary. Bodies were carried here on special funeral gondolas. Last home for Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Brodsky, Jean Schlumberger.

8. Teatro La Fenice

9.0
Campo San Fantin 1965, Venezia, Veneto
Opera House · San Marco · 69 tips and reviews
Imbarcadero ACTV San Tomà is one of Untypical Venice.

9. Imbarcadero ACTV San Tomà

Calle Mocenigo Ca' Vecia (San Polo), Venezia, Veneto
Pier · San Polo · 8 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: It'll be your cheapest(only 50 cents) and quickest gondola ride in Venice. But get ready to extreem. You should stand in the boat while ride.

Teatro La Fenice is one of Untypical Venice.

10. Teatro La Fenice

9.0
Campo San Fantin 1965, Venezia, Veneto
Opera House · San Marco · 69 tips and reviews

GelpmeGelpme: Since opening and being named La Fenice, it has burned and been rebuilt twice more. That's how the name defines a destiny of the place. Visit amazing opera here, one the best Opera Houses in the world