Made famous by Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, this area of Venice is where all Jews were forced to live from the 16th to 18th century. As a result of this isolation the word "ghetto" was soon used throughout Europe for neighborhoods of isolated minority groups. The arrival of Napoleon in 1797 resulted in the disbandment of the ghetto.
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| Campo di Ghetto Nuovo |
During the Holocaust, the Nazi's gathered Jews for deportation in this square. On this wall are bronze reliefs by Arbit Blatas that show the Nazi brutality against the Jews.
"David's Shop" a store on the square that sold glass figurines made on the Island of Murano
Such an authentic, "real" area of Venice with lingering echoes of the tragic times in our recent European history!
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