# Is Cannaregio a Good Area to Stay in Venice? Map & Verdict Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/cannaregio Every Venice district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice.md The best value inside Venice. Residents, the oldest Jewish ghetto in Europe, and a canal-side strip of bars that is still busy at midnight, with the station five minutes away when you leave. Facts: 25 min walk to Piazza San Marco; 35 min to the airport; 40 min to the beach; price €€; best for first-timers, budget, food, nightlife, longer stays; lines Vap 1, Vap 2, Vap 4.1, Vap 4.2, Vap 5.1, Vap 5.2. Cannaregio runs along the north side of the islands from Santa Lucia station to the Fondamente Nove, and most of it is where Venetians live. There are fewer sights here than anywhere else in the historic centre, which is exactly why the rooms cost less and the restaurants are priced for people who eat in them twice a week. Two things make it worth booking rather than merely cheap. The Jewish Ghetto, walled in 1516 and the origin of the word, sits in the middle of the district with its museum and its five synagogues. And the Fondamenta della Misericordia and Fondamenta degli Ormesini are the closest thing Venice has to a night out that is not a hotel bar, with tables along the canal until late. The catch is the station end. Lista di Spagna, the street leading in from Santa Lucia, is a corridor of luggage, souvenir shops and menu boards in four languages, and plenty of hotels are on it. Book north of the Strada Nova, towards the Ghetto or the Misericordia, and you get the district everyone means when they recommend Cannaregio. From there San Marco is 25 to 30 minutes on foot and there is no shortcut. What works: - The cheapest rooms in the historic centre, and cheapest of all in the lanes behind the station. - Five minutes from Santa Lucia, so arriving and leaving costs you nothing in vaporetto fares. - Fondamenta della Misericordia and Fondamenta degli Ormesini stay busy after the rest of Venice has shut. - The Jewish Ghetto, the first in Europe, is inside the district with its museum and synagogues. - Enough residents that the greengrocer and the hardware shop are still in business. What does not: - Lista di Spagna is the worst tourist gauntlet in Venice and a lot of hotels sit on it. - The northern end is a 25 to 30 minute walk from San Marco and there is no shortcut. - Wheeled suitcases start banging over the bridges near the station around 06:00 and do not stop. - Almost none of the famous sights are here, so you commute to them like everyone else. Hotels in Cannaregio: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D621%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1 ## Other districts in Venice - [San Marco](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/san-marco): Mixed. The sights are here and so is everybody else. You pay the top rate in Venice to be five minutes from the Basilica, and you share every street with the day-trip crowd from 10:00 to 18:00. - [Dorsoduro](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/dorsoduro): Recommended. Art at one end, students at the other. The Accademia and the Guggenheim, the sunny Zattere promenade, and the only square in Venice that is still loud at 01:00. - [Castello](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/castello): Recommended. The largest sestiere and the only one where you can watch Venetians buy their groceries. The western edge is minutes from San Marco; the eastern end is where the rent is cheap and the Biennale happens. - [San Polo](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/san-polo): Recommended. The smallest sestiere and the one Venetians still shop in. The Rialto market at one end, the densest run of bacari in the city in the middle, and twelve minutes on foot to San Marco. - [Santa Croce](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/santa-croce): Mixed. Two districts wearing one name. The Piazzale Roma end is a bus station and a multi-storey car park; the eastern half around San Giacomo dell'Orio is one of the quietest corners of the old city. - [Giudecca](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/giudecca): Mixed. A separate island four minutes across the water from the Zattere. Bigger rooms for less money and the best view of Venice there is, in exchange for a vaporetto timetable that runs your evenings. - [Mestre](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/mestre): Mixed. The mainland city where most Venetians actually live. Rooms cost a fraction of the island's and the train takes 11 minutes, but you will never see Venice at 07:00 or at midnight.