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This is the Cannaregio sestiere (district), haunted by former residents such as Marco Polo, Wagner, Tintoretto and Titian.
Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008
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The book is a good travel companion, tightly and pleasantly written, small and purseable, easy to thumb through, and organized by sestiere, so you can effortlessly ID the closest great restaurant to the calle you happen to be lost in when hunger strikes.
Veniceblog: 2004
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The caribinieri arrested 38-year-old engineer Antonio Benacchio on suspicion of theft and vandalism at his home in the San Marco sestiere in the historic center of Venice.
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The book is a good travel companion, tightly and pleasantly written, small and purseable, easy to thumb through, and organized by sestiere, so you can effortlessly ID the closest great restaurant to the calle you happen to be lost in when hunger strikes.
Chow, Venice 2004
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In Dorsoduro, no less ... the sestiere I know best.
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The caribinieri arrested 38-year-old engineer Antonio Benacchio on suspicion of theft and vandalism at his home in the San Marco sestiere in the historic center of Venice.
Veniceblog: 2004
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The Penzo stadium, named after aviator Pier Luigi Penzo, is located on the island of Sant 'Elena, part of the sestiere of Castello, next to the Venice yacht club.
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Venice, near Santa Ternita in the sestiere of Castello.
Veniceblog: 2003
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Venice, near Santa Ternita in the sestiere of Castello.
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According to today's Gazzettino, local authorities have stepped up surveillance and security patrols in the Venetian Ghetto and in areas close by in the sestiere of Cannaregio.
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sestieri pl.
one of the six districts of an Italian city, especially, one of the six districts of Venice: San Marco, San Polo, Santa Croce, Cannaregio, Castello, and Dorsoduro.
July 31, 2008