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Arsenale
Catch a Biennale exhibit at this historic dockyard.
Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Salute Verrocchio's great Colleoni statue.
Colombina
Enchantment defined.
San Zaccaria
Relive the Renaissance at this church.
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni
Feast on Carpaccio's vast paintings.

Castello

For those who have been to Rome and visited the once working-class quarter of Trastevere, perhaps it makes sense to hear that the east side of Castello has been called "the Trastevere of Venice" for its lack of palaces and concentration of humble houses around which neighborhood life turns. Adventurous tourists who get out to Sant'Elena, San Pietro di Castello, and the Arsenale face an almost total absence of bars and shops, with the exception of Via Garibaldi and its tiny morning produce market, low-key shops, and watering holes. The Giardini della Biennale comes to life in the summer of odd years, when the Biennale dell'Arte draws crowds of intellectuals and art dealers from all over the world.