Travel Info F.A.Q.
Daily Minyan
Daily minyanim in the Chabad Shul in the Jewish Ghetto Square
(by the 4 brick arches)
Address: 2915 Cannaregio
No passport necessary
Sunday & Weekdays
Shacharit morning prayer 8:30am
Mincha afternoon prayer 7:30pm / Maariv evening prayer shortly after mincha
Shabbat
Shabbat morning prayer: 10:00am
Mincha: 1.5 hours before Shabbat ends
– Reserve for Shabbat meals on the Shabbat page
– A Shabbat prayer & meal schedule will be sent the week of your visit
Where Can I Store My Luggage, Bags, Backpack?
Need a place to store your luggage/bags/backpack for a few hours or more?
There is paid luggage storage at the train station. It’s a 5 minute walk from the Jewish Ghetto. The Venice S. Lucia train station is easily visible on Google maps.
Your luggage/bags/backpack can not be left at the Chabad synagogue or Chabad House.
Thank you for understanding.
Where Can I Park My Car?
As is known, there are no cars in Venice. There aren’t even streets to drive on, only to walk. At the entrance of the island, you will find parking garages at PiazzaLe Roma that charge daily rates around €30, regular car taxis and regular public auto buses. You can also park on the mainland, in the next city of Mestre (around €10 a day) and then take a 10-minute train ride to Venice. Specific parking info is easily found online.
Men's Mikva
Men’s mikva in Venice open daily. Ask the yeshiva students at the Chabad Shul for location and payment information (a nominal fee). Towels available, but feel free to bring your own.
Women's Mikva
Women’s Mikva (bor al gabei bor)
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Getting to the Ghetto
Where to Stay: Cannaregio
Discover northern Venice’s historic charm and the vibrant Jewish Ghetto in the Cannaregio district.
🚶 Walking Directions from the Station (Approx. 6 mins)
Exit the Station: Face the canal with your back to the station, and turn left.
Pass the First Bridge: You will see the large Ferrovia Bridge on your right. Do not cross it. Walk past it onto Lista Di Spagna.
Walk 5 Minutes: Continue straight until you reach the Guglie Bridge.
Cross & Turn Left: Cross the Guglie Bridge, immediately turn left, and walk along the canal for 1 minute.
Arrive: GAM-GAM is on your right, located at the main entrance of the Jewish Ghetto.
💡 Tip: You can actually see GAM-GAM right from the Guglie Bridge!
🛥️ By Vaporetto (Water Bus)
Take line 4.2 or 5.2 and get off at the Guglie stop.
🔍 Option Details
1. Alilaguna (Public Water Boat): Great budget-friendly water option. It makes stops throughout the city. If you are heading to GAM-GAM Kosher Restaurant, get off at the “Guglie” (goo-lee-eh) stop right nearby.
2. Autobus (Express Bus): The cheapest method. Catch the bus right outside the arrivals terminal. It takes you to the main parking lot, Piazzale Roma. From there, you must switch to a city water bus (vaporetto) or a walking route to reach your hotel.
3. Land Taxi: A quick private ride right outside the terminal. Like the bus, cars can only go as far as Piazzale Roma. You will need to take a water bus (vaporetto), a private water taxi or walk from there into the car-free zones.
4. Private Water Taxi: The most seamless, premium option. Take the airport’s electric moving walkway (about a 7-minute walk) straight to the water docks, where a private boat will pick you up and drop you off directly at your hotel.
Museum and Tours
The Jewish Ghetto is the centerpiece of the story of the Jews in Venice. The Ghetto’s Museo Ebraico (Jewish Museum) offers a tour which takes you inside a few of the 5 Synagogues & explains the history of the Jews of Venice & the synagogues in which they prayed. 40 minutes, tickets bought at museum prior to the tour. Can’t travel to Venice at this time? Discover our Virtual Tours on Rebbetzin Unplugged.
Jewish Ghetto Tour Timetable:
Spring & Summer
Sunday – Thursday Every hour from 10:00 – 5:00
Friday – The last tour is at 2:00.
Closed Saturday
Tickets can be purchased at the museum in the Ghetto Square.
Fall & Winter
Sunday through Thursday 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 and 4:00
Friday – The last tour is at 2:00.
Closed Saturday
Tickets can be purchased at the museum in the Ghetto Square.
Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery at the Lido di Venezia (30 minutes from the Ghetto by boat) has the reserve of a fenced woods and, at the same time, the enduring quality typical of an archaeological outcropping.
The “House of the Living”
It is a characteristic common to other Jewish cemeteries in Italy and in Europe, where the alternation of care and abandonment over the span of many centuries, reflects the historical record – bad and good – of their communities.
The gravestones emerge from a sea of overgrown grass, inclined or flat, or leaning against the brick wall, in the shadow of trees that have grown wild: some have grown so as to embrace the edge of a stone or to have split it. We find not only the funereal cypresses, but plants of many species, casually or intentionally left as a sign of life (Bet ha-chayim, “house of the living” is, in Judaism, the euphemism which designates the cemetery).
The light of the lagoon filters through the leaves. Traces of an order – a garden, efforts of an earlier age – are now confused by the wild vegetation and the half-submerged tombs recall a return to the earth, leaving on the surface a residue of white stone – a silent disorder – or, on the contrary, a re-emergence of memory.
San Nicolo di Mira
The cemetery grounds have their origins in a vineyard adjacent to the Benedictine monastery of San Nicolo di Mira. It was given to the Jews in perpetuity for the purpose of burial in 1386, in a period when the relationship between the Jews and the Serenissima was becoming more organic and formalized. (In fact, one year earlier, 1385, the candotta de banco (banking license) was granted to certain Jewish families in Mestre.)
When, during the course of the 1800s, a new cemetery was opened in an adjacent area, and the Lido was urbanized, the excavations revealed many graves long hidden from sight. The tombstones are reunited in a small site in the old cemetery, once again enclosed. Many stones have lost their original place and the many Jewish “nations,” once distinct, now find themselves strewn together in the entrance area (originally reserved for the Sephardim) facing towards Venice.
On that shore landed the funeral gondolas of the Hevrat Ghemilut Hassadim, the Jewish burial society. Leaving from the ghetto, the cortege of boats traversed the lagoon, taking a route which avoided passages and bridges from which someone could have thrown objects and trash in mockery of the Jews.
San Nicolo di Mira
The cemetery grounds have their origins in a vineyard adjacent to the Benedictine monastery of San Nicolo di Mira. It was given to the Jews in perpetuity for the purpose of burial in 1386, in a period when the relationship between the Jews and the Serenissima was becoming more organic and formalized. (In fact, one year earlier, 1385, the candotta de banco (banking license) was granted to certain Jewish families in Mestre.)
When, during the course of the 1800s, a new cemetery was opened in an adjacent area, and the Lido was urbanized, the excavations revealed many graves long hidden from sight. The tombstones are reunited in a small site in the old cemetery, once again enclosed. Many stones have lost their original place and the many Jewish “nations,” once distinct, now find themselves strewn together in the entrance area (originally reserved for the Sephardim) facing towards Venice.
On that shore landed the funeral gondolas of the Hevrat Ghemilut Hassadim, the Jewish burial society. Leaving from the ghetto, the cortege of boats traversed the lagoon, taking a route which avoided passages and bridges from which someone could have thrown objects and trash in mockery of the Jews.