Giudecca
Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. It is part of the sestiere of Dorsoduro and is a locality of the comune of Venice.Photo: Kasa Fue, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
- Also known as: “Isole Giudecca” and “Zuècca”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gallerie dell’Accademia and Il Redentore.
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.
Il Redentore
Church
Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore, commonly known as Il Redentore, is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located on Giudecca in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, in the city of Venice, Italy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorsoduro and Sacca Fisola.
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.
Sacca Fisola
Neighborhood
Photo: Il Sindaco del Giappone, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sacca Fisola is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon. It is a largely modern residential area.
San Marco
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
San Marco is the central district of Venice. It is home to many of Venice's major points of interest, and consequently can be extremely crowded with tourists, especially during the day when cruise ships unload their passengers.
Giudecca
- Category: landform
- Location: Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Giudecca” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ջուդեկկա (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Ջուդեկկա”
- Basque: “Giudecca”
- Breton: “Giudecca”
- Catalan: “Giudecca”
- Cebuano: “La Giudecca”
- Chinese: “朱代卡岛”
- Croatian: “Giudecca”
- Dutch: “Giudecca”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيوديكا”
- Esperanto: “Giudecca”
- Estonian: “Giudecca”
- French: “Giudecca”
- German: “Giudecca”
- Greek: “Τζιουντέκκα”
- Greek: “Τζουντέκκα”
- Hebrew: “ג’ודקה”
- Hungarian: “Giudecca”
- Indonesian: “Giudecca”
- Italian: “Giudecca”
- Japanese: “ジュデッカ”
- Latin: “Spina Longa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Giudecca”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Giudecca”
- Polish: “Giudecca”
- Portuguese: “Giudecca”
- Romanian: “Giudecca”
- Russian: “Джудекка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Giudecca”
- Slovenian: “Giudecca”
- Spanish: “Giudecca”
- Turkish: “Giudecca”
- Ukrainian: “Джудекка”
- Venetian: “Zueca”
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Localities in the Area
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