Sacca Fisola
Sacca Fisola is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon. It is a largely modern residential area.Photo: Il Sindaco del Giappone, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Islet
- Description: island of the venitian laguna
- Also known as: “Sacche Fisola”
- Address: Sacca Fisola, Sacca Fisola
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Gerardo Sagredo and Gallerie dell’Accademia.
Gallerie dell’Accademia
Museum
Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. A few weeks every six years, it houses the Leonardo da Vinci drawing The Vitruvian Man.
Sacca San Biagio
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sacca San Biagio is an uninhabited island in the Venetian Lagoon which, like other "sacche", is artificial. It lies immediately to the west of Sacca Fisola, to which it is connected by a bridge, and was built between the 1920s and the 1950s from trash.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorsoduro and Santa Croce.
Dorsoduro
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
Dorsoduro is one of the six historic sestieri of Venice, Italy, located in the southern part of the city and known for its relatively firm terrain that earned it the name meaning "hard back" or "hard ridge" in Italian, distinguishing it from the more marshy areas of the lagoon.
Santa Croce
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, occupying the northwest part of the main islands. The district includes the Piazzale Roma, home to Venice's bus station and car parks, and around which is the only area of the city in which cars can travel.
San Polo
Sacca Fisola
- Categories: island, locality, and landform
- Location: Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.427° or 45° 25′ 37″ northLongitude
12.31444° or 12° 18′ 52″ eastPopulation
1,460Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
8FQJC8G7+QQOpenStreetMap ID
way 216882427OpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
3168739Wikidata ID
Q544119
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Sacca Fisola” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sacca Fisola”
- Cebuano: “Sacca Fisola”
- Chinese: “薩卡菲索拉島”
- Croatian: “Sacca Fisola”
- Dutch: “Sacca Fisola”
- Esperanto: “Sacca Fisola”
- French: “Sacca Fisola”
- German: “Sacca Fisola”
- Indonesian: “Sacca Fisola”
- Italian: “Sacca Fisola”
- Japanese: “サッカ・フィゾーラ”
- Japanese: “サッカ・フィゾーラ島”
- Korean: “사카피솔라섬”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sacca Fisola”
- Romanian: “Sacca Fisola”
- Russian: “Сакка Физола”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sacca Fisola”
- Slovenian: “Sacca Fisola”
- Spanish: “Sacca Fisola”
- Turkish: “Sacca Fisola”
- Venetian: “Saca Fìxoła”
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