# Roots Earth in Venice: audio stories about 48 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/venice Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 48 places in Venice, Italy, in Europe. The Venice stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Venice, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 48 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 48 places in Venice with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. St Mark's Basilica 2. St Mark's Square 3. Doge's Palace 4. St Mark's Campanile 5. St Mark's Clocktower 6. Bridge of Sighs 7. Rialto Bridge 8. Grand Canal 9. Ca' d'Oro 10. Gallerie dell'Accademia 11. Peggy Guggenheim Collection 12. Santa Maria della Salute 13. Punta della Dogana 14. San Giorgio Maggiore 15. Frari Basilica 16. Scuola Grande di San Rocco 17. Teatro La Fenice 18. Santi Giovanni e Paolo 19. Scuola Grande di San Marco 20. Santa Maria dei Miracoli 21. San Zaccaria 22. Ca' Rezzonico 23. Palazzo Grassi 24. Scala Contarini del Bovolo 25. San Sebastiano 26. Madonna dell'Orto 27. Venetian Ghetto 28. Rialto Market 29. Fondaco dei Tedeschi 30. Murano 31. Burano 32. Torcello 33. Lido di Venezia 34. Ca' Pesaro 35. Cannaregio 36. Fondamenta della Misericordia 37. Castello 38. Via Garibaldi 39. Rialto Fish Market 40. Campo Santa Margherita 41. Giudecca 42. Il Redentore 43. Sant'Elena 44. Venetian Arsenal 45. Giardini della Biennale 46. San Pietro di Castello 47. Campo Santo Stefano 48. Squero di San Trovaso ## Is there an audio guide for St Mark's Basilica? Yes. St Mark's Basilica has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. It is place 1 of the 48 Venice places in the app, at 45.43451, 12.33971. Every one of the other 47 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Venice Open Roots Earth and choose Venice. The city has its own map of places with all 48 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 48 places in Venice, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 48 places in Venice, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. St Mark's Basilica - Coordinates: 45.43451, 12.33971 - In one line: Venice's golden cathedral, consecrated in 1094 to enshrine the relics of Saint Mark. Five Byzantine domes crown an interior sheathed in around 8,000 square metres of gilded mosaic, earning it the name Church of Gold. ### 2. St Mark's Square - Coordinates: 45.43402, 12.33889 - In one line: The vast ceremonial heart of Venice, enlarged to roughly its present form under Doge Sebastiano Ziani in the 1170s. Framed by the basilica, campanile and arcaded Procuratie, it has hosted the city's processions, markets and politics for centuries. ### 3. Doge's Palace - Coordinates: 45.43373, 12.34019 - In one line: The seat of the Venetian Republic and home of its elected doge, with Gothic facades raised mostly between 1340 and 1424. Behind its lace-like loggias lay the council chambers, courts and prisons that governed a maritime empire. ### 4. St Mark's Campanile - Coordinates: 45.43388, 12.33889 - In one line: The freestanding bell tower of Venice, rising about 98. 6 metres above the square and crowned by a golden archangel. After the original collapsed in 1902, the city rebuilt it exactly as it was, reopening in 1912. ### 5. St Mark's Clocktower - Coordinates: 45.43444, 12.33861 - In one line: A Renaissance clock tower built between 1496 and 1499 at the entrance to the Merceria. Its blue and gold astronomical dial tracks the zodiac and moon, while two bronze figures, known as the Moors, strike the hours on a rooftop bell. ### 6. Bridge of Sighs - Coordinates: 45.43417, 12.34111 - In one line: An enclosed Baroque bridge of white Istrian stone, built between 1600 and 1603 by Antonio Contino. It carried prisoners from the Doge's Palace courts to the new prison across the canal, and owes its romantic name to a nineteenth-century legend. ### 7. Rialto Bridge - Coordinates: 45.43806, 12.33583 - In one line: The oldest bridge across the Grand Canal, built in stone between 1588 and 1591 by Antonio da Ponte. Its bold single arch, lined with shops along three walkways, replaced a series of wooden crossings at the commercial heart of Venice. ### 8. Grand Canal - Coordinates: 45.4361, 12.3275 - In one line: Venice's main waterway, a reverse-S channel roughly 3. 8 kilometres long that threads through the city's heart. More than 170 palaces in Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles line its banks, presenting their finest facades to the water. ### 9. Ca' d'Oro - Coordinates: 45.44083, 12.33361 - In one line: A Venetian Gothic palace on the Grand Canal, built between 1421 and the late 1430s for the Contarini family. Its lace-like marble facade was once gilded, earning the name House of Gold. Today it houses the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti. ### 10. Gallerie dell'Accademia - Coordinates: 45.43139, 12.32833 - In one line: Venice's foremost gallery of painting, holding the greatest collection of Venetian art before the 19th century. Housed in a former convent and confraternity beside the Grand Canal, it gathers masterpieces by Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, plus Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. ### 11. Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Coordinates: 45.43083, 12.33139 - In one line: A leading museum of 20th-century art on the Grand Canal, set in the unfinished 18th-century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. It holds the personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim, with works by Picasso, Pollock, Kandinsky and Ernst, and her grave in the garden. ### 12. Santa Maria della Salute - Coordinates: 45.43083, 12.33472 - In one line: A great domed Baroque church at the entrance to the Grand Canal, built in thanks for deliverance from the plague of 1630 to 1631. Designed by Baldassare Longhena on an octagonal plan, it was begun in 1631 and completed in 1687. ### 13. Punta della Dogana - Coordinates: 45.43028, 12.33611 - In one line: A triangular building at the tip of Dorsoduro where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal. Built as the Republic's sea customs house in the late 17th century, it was restored by Tadao Ando and opened in 2009 as a contemporary art museum. ### 14. San Giorgio Maggiore - Coordinates: 45.42944, 12.34333 - In one line: A white-fronted church on its own island facing San Marco, designed by Andrea Palladio and begun in 1566. Its classical Istrian-stone facade is a defining view across the basin, and the interior holds major paintings by Tintoretto. ### 15. Frari Basilica - Coordinates: 45.43694, 12.32694 - In one line: A vast Venetian Gothic church of red brick raised by the Franciscans and consecrated in 1492. Inside hangs Titian's Assumption of the Virgin, while doges, the painter himself, and Canova lie among its monuments. ### 16. Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Coordinates: 45.43694, 12.32583 - In one line: Headquarters of a charitable brotherhood dedicated to Saint Roch, protector against plague. Behind its marble facade, Jacopo Tintoretto covered the walls and ceilings with more than fifty canvases painted between 1564 and 1588, often called the Sistine Chapel of Venice. ### 17. Teatro La Fenice - Coordinates: 45.43361, 12.33361 - In one line: Venice's principal opera house, opened in 1792 and named for the phoenix that rises from its ashes. Twice destroyed by fire and rebuilt each time, it staged premieres by Rossini, Bellini, and Verdi and reopened in 2003 after an arson blaze in 1996. ### 18. Santi Giovanni e Paolo - Coordinates: 45.43972, 12.34139 - In one line: A vast Dominican church in brick Venetian Gothic, consecrated in 1430 and known locally as San Zanipolo. Often called the pantheon of Venice, it holds the tombs of around twenty-five doges, and Verrocchio's Colleoni statue stands in the campo outside. ### 19. Scuola Grande di San Marco - Coordinates: 45.44, 12.3411 - In one line: A Renaissance confraternity building rebuilt after a 1485 fire by Pietro Lombardo and Mauro Codussi. Its marble facade is famous for trompe-l'oeil perspective panels that fake depth on a flat wall. It now serves as the entrance to Venice's civic hospital. ### 20. Santa Maria dei Miracoli - Coordinates: 45.43889, 12.33778 - In one line: A small early Renaissance church built between 1481 and 1489 by Pietro Lombardo to shelter a miracle-working image of the Virgin. ### 21. San Zaccaria - Coordinates: 45.43444, 12.34167 - In one line: A church near Saint Mark's, founded in the 9th century and rebuilt between 1457 and 1515 in a blend of late Gothic and Renaissance by Antonio Gambello and Mauro Codussi. It holds Giovanni Bellini's serene San Zaccaria Altarpiece of 1505. ### 22. Ca' Rezzonico - Coordinates: 45.43361, 12.32694 - In one line: A grand Baroque palace on the Grand Canal, begun in 1649 by Baldassare Longhena and completed in 1756 by Giorgio Massari. Today it houses the Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice, with frescoed ceilings, period rooms, and works by Tiepolo. ### 23. Palazzo Grassi - Coordinates: 45.43306, 12.32944 - In one line: A classical palace on the Grand Canal, designed by Giorgio Massari and built between 1748 and 1772 for the Grassi family. It was the last great palace raised before the Venetian Republic fell, and now displays the Pinault Collection of contemporary art. ### 24. Scala Contarini del Bovolo - Coordinates: 45.43472, 12.33444 - In one line: An external spiral staircase added to the Contarini palace around 1499, its name meaning snail shell in Venetian. Winding loggias of brick and Istrian stone climb to a rooftop belvedere with sweeping views over the city's domes and bell towers. ### 25. San Sebastiano - Coordinates: 45.43222, 12.31861 - In one line: A Renaissance church in Dorsoduro built in the early sixteenth century by Scarpagnino as one of Venice's plague churches. It is celebrated above all for the vast painted cycle by Paolo Veronese, who decorated it over many years and is buried within. ### 26. Madonna dell'Orto - Coordinates: 45.44694, 12.33361 - In one line: A Venetian Gothic church in Cannaregio, built in the fourteenth century and named for a miraculous Madonna statue found in a garden. It was the parish church of the painter Jacopo Tintoretto, who filled it with his works and lies buried inside. ### 27. Venetian Ghetto - Coordinates: 45.445, 12.32639 - In one line: Established in 1516, the Venetian Ghetto was the first area in Europe where Jews were legally confined. Its tall, crowded buildings and five historic synagogues gave the world the very word ghetto, and the quarter remains the heart of Jewish Venice today. ### 28. Rialto Market - Coordinates: 45.43917, 12.33444 - In one line: For nearly a thousand years the commercial heart of Venice, the Rialto market gathers a fish market and a produce market beside the Grand Canal. Once the center of the Republic's trade and early banking, it still trades fresh catch and vegetables each morning. ### 29. Fondaco dei Tedeschi - Coordinates: 45.43833, 12.33639 - In one line: A Renaissance trading house beside the Rialto Bridge, rebuilt between 1505 and 1508 as the warehouse, customs post, and lodging of Venice's German merchants. Its painted façades, once frescoed by Giorgione and Titian, are long gone, but the great courtyard survives. ### 30. Murano - Coordinates: 45.45861, 12.35361 - In one line: A cluster of small islands in the Venetian lagoon, world-famous for glass. After a 1291 decree moved Venice's furnaces here to reduce fire risk, Murano became Europe's leading centre of glassmaking, its artisans guarding closely held secrets for centuries. ### 31. Burano - Coordinates: 45.48528, 12.41694 - In one line: A small fishing island in the northern Venetian lagoon, known for its brightly painted houses and its centuries-old tradition of needle lace. The vivid colours, now regulated by the authorities, line narrow canals beside the leaning bell tower of San Martino. ### 32. Torcello - Coordinates: 45.49778, 12.41806 - In one line: A quiet, almost deserted island in the northern lagoon, once a thriving town that rivalled Venice before silting and malaria emptied it. Its cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, founded in 639, holds some of the finest Byzantine mosaics in Italy. ### 33. Lido di Venezia - Coordinates: 45.40972, 12.36694 - In one line: A long sandbar island separating the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic Sea, home to Venice's beaches, grand seaside hotels, and Liberty-style villas. Since 1932 it has hosted the Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world. ### 34. Ca' Pesaro - Coordinates: 45.44083, 12.32944 - In one line: A monumental Baroque palace on the Grand Canal, designed by Baldassare Longhena for the Pesaro family and finished in 1710. Bequeathed to the city in 1898, it now houses Venice's International Gallery of Modern Art and a museum of Oriental art. ### 35. Cannaregio - Coordinates: 45.44417, 12.3275 - In one line: The northernmost and most populous of Venice's six sestieri, a largely residential district of long canalside walkways, neighbourhood bars, and working-class homes. It holds the historic Jewish Ghetto, the Strada Nova shopping street, and Tintoretto's parish church. ### 36. Fondamenta della Misericordia - Coordinates: 45.44528, 12.33167 - In one line: A canal-side quay in northern Cannaregio lined with bacari and small restaurants, where Venetians gather for evening aperitivo. One of the few places in the city with genuine nightlife, it takes its name from the nearby Scuola Grande della Misericordia. ### 37. Castello - Coordinates: 45.43528, 12.35083 - In one line: The largest of Venice's six sestieri, occupying the city's eastern end. Once home to the great Arsenal shipyard and a Greek merchant community, it remains a working residential district of quiet canals, parish squares, and everyday life beyond the tourist routes. ### 38. Via Garibaldi - Coordinates: 45.43028, 12.35611 - In one line: The widest street in Venice, created under Napoleon by filling in a canal in the Castello district. A lively local market street lined with stalls, bars, and shops, it remains one of the most authentically Venetian places in the city. ### 39. Rialto Fish Market - Coordinates: 45.43972, 12.33417 - In one line: Venice's fish market beside the Grand Canal at Rialto, trading on this spot for around 900 years. Its open neo-Gothic hall, built in 1907, shelters stalls of lagoon and Adriatic seafood sold each morning to chefs and residents alike. ### 40. Campo Santa Margherita - Coordinates: 45.43583, 12.32472 - In one line: A large, lively square in the Dorsoduro district, ringed by cafes, bars, and market stalls. Long a hub of local and student life, it once hosted Venice's socialist movement and remains one of the city's most sociable open spaces. ### 41. Giudecca - Coordinates: 45.42583, 12.31944 - In one line: A long, narrow island just south of central Venice, across the Giudecca Canal. ### 42. Il Redentore - Coordinates: 45.425, 12.32639 - In one line: Andrea Palladio's votive church on the Giudecca, built in thanks for deliverance from a plague that killed tens of thousands. Begun in 1577 and consecrated in 1592, its white facade and dome anchor Venice's most cherished summer festival. ### 43. Sant'Elena - Coordinates: 45.42389, 12.365 - In one line: A quiet residential district and shaded park at the far eastern tip of Castello, built on reclaimed land in the early twentieth century around a medieval Gothic church that holds the relics of Saint Helena. ### 44. Venetian Arsenal - Coordinates: 45.43472, 12.35139 - In one line: The vast shipyard and armoury of the Venetian Republic, founded around 1104. Spanning some 45 hectares with up to 16,000 workers, it built warships on an early assembly line and powered Venice's maritime dominance for centuries. ### 45. Giardini della Biennale - Coordinates: 45.42806, 12.35639 - In one line: Public gardens laid out under Napoleon in the early nineteenth century on reclaimed marshland in Castello. Since the first Venice Biennale of 1895 they have hosted the world's leading art exhibition, scattered among some thirty national pavilions. ### 46. San Pietro di Castello - Coordinates: 45.43417, 12.35944 - In one line: Venice's cathedral from 1451 until 1807, on the quiet island of San Pietro in eastern Castello. Its facade follows a Palladio design, and Mauro Codussi's leaning white campanile was the first in Venice built of Istrian stone. ### 47. Campo Santo Stefano - Coordinates: 45.43389, 12.32944 - In one line: One of the largest and liveliest squares in San Marco, near the Accademia bridge. Ringed by palaces and cafés and watched over by an 1882 statue of the patriot Niccolò Tommaseo, it was once a venue for public bull-baiting. ### 48. Squero di San Trovaso - Coordinates: 45.43028, 12.32694 - In one line: A working gondola boatyard in Dorsoduro, founded in the seventeenth century and among the last of its kind in Venice. 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