# Is Dorsoduro 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/dorsoduro Every Venice district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice.md 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. Facts: 15 min walk to Piazza San Marco; 45 min to the airport; 30 min to the beach; price €€€; best for couples, sights, food, solo travellers; lines Vap 1, Vap 2, Vap 5.1, Vap 5.2, Vap 6. Safety: Mixed after dark. Campo Santa Margherita is a student drinking square and gets rowdy well past midnight; Wikivoyage names it, with Campo Bella Vienna, as a place where evening trouble happens. Sleep a street or two off it. Dorsoduro is the southern strip of the islands, and it splits cleanly in two. The eastern end, around the Accademia and the Salute, is the museum quarter: the Gallerie dell'Accademia, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Punta della Dogana within ten minutes of each other, and room rates to match. The western end belongs to Ca' Foscari university, and the prices in the bars drop accordingly. The Zattere is the reason to book here. It faces south along the Giudecca canal, gets sun all day, and is the one long walk in Venice with room to walk two abreast. From the Ponte dell'Accademia you are fifteen minutes from Piazza San Marco, which is as central as anywhere gets without paying San Marco prices. The thing to watch is Campo Santa Margherita. It is the best square in the city for a cheap drink and the worst place in the city to have a bedroom window, and Venice's own guidance flags it for late-night trouble. Book two or three lanes back and you keep the bars without the noise. Note also that the sestiere officially includes Giudecca and Sacca Fisola across the water, which are boat-only, so read the address before you book. What works: - The Accademia, the Peggy Guggenheim and Santa Maria della Salute are all within ten minutes. - The Zattere faces south along the Giudecca canal: the one long, sunny, uncrowded walk in Venice. - Ca' Foscari keeps a student population, so the bars and the pizza are priced for students. - Fifteen minutes to Piazza San Marco over the Ponte dell'Accademia. What does not: - Campo Santa Margherita is loud until the small hours and rooms on it are unsleepable in summer. - Room rates near the Accademia approach San Marco's without the convenience of San Marco. - The sestiere legally includes Giudecca and Sacca Fisola, which are only reachable by boat, so check the address. - The museum end is dead in the evening: the galleries shut and the restaurants close early. Hotels in Dorsoduro: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D622%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. - [Cannaregio](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-venice/cannaregio): Recommended. 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. - [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.