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Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
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adult/reduced €10/8
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guided tours in English & French 11am, 1pm, 3pm & 5pm Sat & Sun; in Italian 10am, noon, 2pm &
4pm Sat & Sun
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San Giorgio Maggiore
ANTICO CIMITERO ISRAELITICO
MAP
CEMETERY
GOOGLE MAP
( 041 71 53 59;
www.museoebraico.it
; Riviera San Nicolò; group tours adult/student €10/8, individual tours €80;
by reservation Apr-Oct; Lido, San Nicoló)
This quiet, overgrown garden was Venice's main
Jewish cemetery from 1386 until the 18th century. It fell into disuse after the establish-
ment of a new cemetery on Via Cipro. The tombstones were rediscovered by construction
workers in the 1920s and it was decided to set them in some sort of order. They range in
design from Venetian Gothic to distinctly Ottoman, and many of them bear decorations
dramatically at variance with Jewish Orthodoxy.
Nor are the lions those of St Mark or Judah; they are the lions of Castile and León,
brought to Venice on the armorials of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain by the Grand
