Sacca San Biagio
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Italy
- Also known as: “Sacca S. Biagio”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gallerie dell’Accademia and Palazzo Grassi.
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.
Palazzo Grassi
Museum
Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palazzo Grassi is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice, between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele.
San Nicolò dei Mendicoli
Church
Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Nicolò dei Mendicoli is a church, which is located in the sestiere of Dorsoduro in Venice.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sacca Fisola and Dorsoduro.
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.
Dorsoduro
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola.
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.
Sacca San Biagio
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.4269° or 45° 25′ 37″ northLongitude
12.30935° or 12° 18′ 34″ eastElevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)Open location code
8FQJC8G5+QPOpenStreetMap ID
way 216882428OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Sacca San Biagio” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sacca S. Biagio”
- Dutch: “Sacca San Biagio”
- French: “Sacca San Biagio”
- German: “Sacca S. Biagio”
- German: “Sacca San Biagio”
- Italian: “Sacca San Biagio”
- Japanese: “サッカ・サン・ビアージョ”
- Romanian: “Sacca San Biagio”
- Russian: “Сакка Сан-Бьяджо”
- Turkish: “Sacca San Biagio”
- Venetian: “Saca San Biaxio”
- Venetian: “Saca San Biazio”
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