Santa Croce

Santa Croce 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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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gallerie dell’Accademia and La Fenice.

Museum
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The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in , northern Italy. It houses the Leonardo da Vinci drawing The Vitruvian Man, which can only be exposed for a few weeks every six years for conservation reasons.

Theater building
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Teatro is a historic opera house in , Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre" and in the history of opera as a whole.

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The Ca' d'Oro, or Palazzo Santa Sofia, is a palace on the Grand Canal in , northern . Ca' d'Oro or Cadoro translates to "House of Gold" or "Golden House" in English because of the gilt and polychrome external decorations that once adorned its walls.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Marco and Cannaregio.

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is the central district of . 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.

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is one six sestieri that make up . For many travellers, it's the first part of Venice they enter, since Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, the main railway station, is here.

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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.

Santa Croce

Latitude
45.4386° or 45° 26′ 19″ north
Longitude
12.3238° or 12° 19′ 26″ east
Elevation
-3 metres (-10 feet)
Open location code
8FQJC8QF+CG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 216882432
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
3167663
Wiki­data ID
Q52428
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Venetian—“Santa Croce” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սանտա Կրոչե”
  • Basque: “Santa Croce”
  • Catalan: “Santa Croce”
  • Chinese: “圣十字区”
  • Croatian: “Santa Croce”
  • Danish: “Santa Croce”
  • Dutch: “Santa Croce”
  • French: “Santa Croce”
  • German: “Santa Croce”
  • Greek: “Σάντα Κρότσε”
  • Hebrew: “סנטה קרוצ’ה”
  • Hungarian: “Santa Croce”
  • Italian: “Santa Croce”
  • Japanese: “サンタクローチェ地区”
  • Korean: “산타크로체”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Croce”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Croce”
  • Russian: “Санта-Кроче”
  • Serbian: “Santa Croce”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Croce”
  • Slovenian: “Santa Croce”
  • Spanish: “Santa Croce”
  • Ukrainian: “Санта-Кроче”
  • Venetian: “Santa Cróxe”
  • Venetian: “Santa Cróze”

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