Venice Art and History Walking Tour - Pietà Church, Scuola Dalmata Exterior & Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Walk through eastern Venice,
where art and history remain

This 2-hour walking tour starts at the Church of the Pietà and ends at Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo. With an English-speaking guide, you leave the busiest tourist routes for the eastern district’s waterfront promenade, shipbuilding complex, quiet churches and lanes. It is an outdoor walking tour, and entrance fees are not included.

Walk from the Pietà church to Riva degli Schiavoni

The Baroque church of Santa Maria della Pietà is known as the place where Antonio Vivaldi taught and composed music for girls from the neighboring orphanage. After seeing the church from the outside, you stroll along Riva degli Schiavoni, with open views of the lagoon.

See the Arsenal, San Martino and the Scuola Dalmata from the outside

Look at the Venetian Arsenal, the shipbuilding complex that once supported Venice’s maritime power. Then enter a quiet residential area to see the church of San Martino and the Scuola Dalmata dei Santi Giorgio e Trifone, famous for Vittore Carpaccio’s paintings, from the outside.

Pass Sotoportego de la Pietra Rossa to San Francesco della Vigna

Follow narrow calli under Sotoportego de la Pietra Rossa to San Francesco della Vigna, a Renaissance church partly designed by Jacopo Sansovino with a façade completed by Andrea Palladio. The tour ends at Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, surrounded by a large basilica and historic buildings.