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Venetian GhettoFrom: Venice's Top 11 Free Sights
ABOVE: The Ghetto Nuovo, or "Gheto Novo" in Venetian dialect.
If you have time and a few euros to spare, you can visit the Jewish Museum or take a guided English-language tour of the synagogues. The Ghetto is easy to reach: As you're walking toward the city center from the railroad station, turn left after crossing the Ponte delle Guglie and look for the Gam Gam restaurant. Turn right into the passage before the restaurant; you'll first encounter the Ghetto Vecchio, or Old Ghetto. Beyond that is a larger square, the Ghetto Nuovo or New Ghetto, which is shown in the top photo above.
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The
Ghetto has several interesting characteristics, such as the low-ceilinged,
multistory apartment buildings that were built to accommodate a dense Jewish
population and the upstairs synagogues that served Jews of different
nationalities.
Interesting
fact: Venice's Jewish population fell sharply during World War II, when many
Jews were shipped off to concentration camps, but it has grown in recent years
because of an influx of Messianic Jews from the other parts of Italy and the
United States. (If you see men in black hats and side curls, there's a good
chance that they're from Brooklyn.)
