Places & institutions

The five synagogues, the Jewish Museum, the old cemetery on the Lido and the cultural institutions of the Ghetto today.

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  Beit Venezia, “a home for Jewish culture”: how it was launched in 2015

  An independent account of the launch of Beit Venezia in February 2015, its idea of living, learning and creating in Jewish Venice, and its place in the Ghetto's 500th anniversary.

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  The Jewish Museum of Venice: from a postwar founding to the 2026 reopening

  How the Jewish Museum of Venice was founded in the 1950s by members of the community including Cesare Vivante, what he did for the Ghetto's monuments, what its collections hold, and what changed when it reopened in October 2026.

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  The five synagogues of the Venice Ghetto

  The Scola Grande Tedesca, Scola Canton, Scola Italiana, Scola Levantina and Scola Spagnola: who built them, how to recognise them from outside and what makes each one distinctive.

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  The old Jewish cemetery on the Lido: six centuries in stone

  Granted to Venice's Jews in 1386, the old cemetery at San Nicolò on the Lido holds more than a thousand gravestones. Its history, its carved coats of arms, its long neglect and its restoration.