Grand Canal

The Grand Canal is the largest channel in , Italy, forming one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. One end of the canal leads into the near the and the other end leads into the basin at ; in between, it makes a large reverse-S shape through the central districts of Venice.
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  • Type: Canal
  • Description: canal and major water-traffic corridor in Venice, Italy
  • Also known as: “Canal Grande”, “Canałasso”, and “Grand Canal (Venice)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and Scuola Grande di San Rocco.

Church
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The Basilica di , commonly abbreviated to the Frari, is a church located in the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the district of , .

Museum
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The is a building in , northern . It is noted for its collection of paintings by Tintoretto and generally agreed to include some of his finest work.

Church
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The Church of Saint Roch is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Roch in Venice, northern Italy. It was built between 1489 and 1508 by Bartolomeo Bon the Younger, but was substantially altered in 1725.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Croce and San Polo.

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is one of the six sestieri of , 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.

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is one of six sestieri that make up . Covering 86 acres along the Grand Canal, it is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the 9th century.

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is one of the six historic sestieri of , , 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.

Grand Canal

Latitude
45.43678° or 45° 26′ 12″ north
Longitude
12.32596° or 12° 19′ 33″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
8FQJC8PG+P9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 173196996
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­canal
Geo­Names ID
3175933
Wiki­data ID
Q309243
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Grand Canal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Canal Grande”
  • Arabic: “القنال الكبير”
  • Armenian: “Գրանդ Կանալ”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ ջրանցք”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanal Qrande”
  • Basque: “Veneziako Ubide Handia”
  • Belarusian: “Гранд-канал”
  • Belarusian: “Гранд-канале”
  • Breton: “Canal Grande”
  • Bulgarian: “Канал Гранде”
  • Catalan: “Gran Canal”
  • Cebuano: “Canal Grande (kanal sa Italya)”
  • Cebuano: “Canal Grande”
  • Central Bikol: “Grand Canal (Venice)”
  • Central Bikol: “Grand Canal”
  • Chinese: “大运河”
  • Chinese: “大運河”
  • Croatian: “Canal Grande”
  • Czech: “Canal Grande”
  • Danish: “Canal Grande”
  • Dutch: “Canal Grande”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القنال الكبير”
  • Esperanto: “Canal Grande”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Kanalo de Venecio”
  • Estonian: “Suur Kanal”
  • Finnish: “Canal Grande”
  • French: “Grand Canal”
  • German: “Canal Grande”
  • German: “Canałazzo”
  • Greek: “Κανάλ Γκράντε”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλο Κανάλι”
  • Hebrew: “התעלה הגדולה של ונציה”
  • Hebrew: “התעלה הגדולה”
  • Hungarian: “Canal Grande”
  • Indonesian: “Kanal Besar Venesia”
  • Italian: “Canal Grande”
  • Japanese: “カナル・グランデ”
  • Japanese: “グランド・カナル”
  • Korean: “카날 그란데”
  • Korean: “카날 그랑데”
  • Latvian: “Lielais kanāls”
  • Macedonian: “Голем канал”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canal Grande”
  • Norwegian: “Canal Grande”
  • Persian: “کانال بزرگ”
  • Polish: “Canal Grande”
  • Polish: “Kanał Grande”
  • Portuguese: “Canal Grande”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Canal de Veneza”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Canal”
  • Romanian: “Canal Grande”
  • Russian: “Большой канал”
  • Russian: “Гранд-канал”
  • Russian: “Канал-Гранде”
  • Serbian: “Канал Гранде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Canal Grande”
  • Slovak: “Canal Grande”
  • Slovenian: “Canal Grande, Benetke”
  • Slovenian: “Canal Grande”
  • Slovenian: “Canalasso”
  • Slovenian: “Veliki kanal”
  • Spanish: “Canale Grande”
  • Spanish: “Gran Canal de Venecia”
  • Spanish: “Gran Canal”
  • Swedish: “Canal Grande”
  • Swedish: “Rio di San Luca”
  • Swedish: “Rio Di San Lucca”
  • Thai: “คลองใหญ่”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Kanal”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий канал (Венеція)”
  • Ukrainian: “Гранд-канал”
  • Urdu: “گرینڈ کینال”
  • Venetian: “Canal Grande”
  • Venetian: “Canal Grando”
  • Venetian: “Canałaso”
  • Vietnamese: “Kênh đào Chính của Venezia”
  • Welsh: “Camlas Grand”
  • “Canal Grande”

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Notable Places Nearby

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