Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
1
Cimitero
HISTORIC SITE
Napoleon built Venice's island cemetery, and today, goths, incorrigible romantics
and music-lovers pay respects here to Ezra Pound, Joseph Brodsky, Sergei
Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky. Architecture buffs visit Codussi's 15th century
Ch-
iesa di San Michele in Isola
and David Chipperfield Architects' austere new
Courtyard of the Four Evangelists
- a sunken bunker with a concrete colon-
nade and basalt-clad, Gospel-engraved walls.
(admission free;
7.30am-6pm daily Apr-
Sep, to 4pm Oct-Mar;
Cimitero)
2
Malamocco
TOWN
A miniature version of Venice right down to the lions of St Mark on medieval
facades, Malamocco was actually the lagoon capital from 742 to 811. Pass over
Ponte di Borgo to explore its tiny ancient canals,
calli
(lanes), and local-specialty
malamocchina cicheti
at Al Ponte di Borgo (
Click here
). (
Lido)
3
Antico Cimitero Israelitico
CEMETERY
This quiet, overgrown garden on the Lido was Venice's main Jewish cemetery
from 1386 until the 18th century, when a new cemetery was built on Via Cipro.
The tombstones were rediscovered in the 1920s; tours aid preservation efforts.
Headstone designs range from Venetian Gothic to distinctly Ottoman. (
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)
