Rialto
The Rialto is a central area of Venice, Italy, in the sestiere of San Polo. It is, and has been for many centuries, the financial and commercial heart of the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Rialto Bridge and Palazzo Bembo.
Rialto Bridge
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The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in 1173, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.
Palazzo Bembo
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Palazzo Bembo is a XIV century Venetian Gothic-Byzantine style palace in Venice, Italy, on the Grand Canal, close by the Rialto Bridge and next to the Palazzo Dolfin Manin.
Piazza San Marco
Square
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Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Marco and San Polo.
San Marco
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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.
San Polo
San Polo is one of six sestieri that make up Venice. Covering 86 acres along the Grand Canal, it is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the 9th century.
Santa Croce
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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.
Rialto
- Type: Locality
- Description: central area of Venice, Italy
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rialto” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rialto”
- Aragonese: “Rialto”
- Armenian: “Ռիալտո”
- Arpitan: “Rialto”
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- Breton: “Rialto”
- Bulgarian: “Риалто”
- Catalan: “Rialto”
- Chinese: “里亚尔托”
- Chinese: “里亞爾托”
- Chinese: “里阿尔托”
- Corsican: “Rialto”
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- German: “Rialto”
- Greek: “Ριάλτο”
- Hebrew: “ריאלטו”
- Hungarian: “Rialto”
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- Italian: “Rialto”
- Japanese: “リアルト”
- Kongo: “Rialto”
- Korean: “리알토”
- Kurdish: “Rialto”
- Latin: “Rivus Altus”
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- Occitan (post 1500): “Rialto”
- Persian: “ریالتو (ونیز)”
- Persian: “ریالتو”
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- Russian: “Риальто”
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- Ukrainian: “Ріальто”
- Venetian: “Rialto”
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