THE GHETTO, Visit

If you reached Venice by train, you don't have to walk far from the station to get to the square of the Ghetto Nuovo at the center of the Jewish quarter. Here Venice seems like a different city: you won't see any of the usual palaces and monumental churches you're used to, and everywhere you look you'll see public housing-type buildings that were built upwards, like actual towers. You will instead have a hard time finding the entrances to the synagogues, which are all of sixteenth-century origin: in fact, they aren't even remotely ostentatious - they're almost camouflaged. Keep in mind that even here the synagogues were called "schools", in the typical sense that this word had in Venice, as centers for groups and communities to reunite.

The city's oldest synagogue is the Great German School, which was renovated in the 18th century.

The Canton School belonged to the Ashkenazi community.

The Italian school was opened in the second half of the 16th century and was also renovated in the 18th century....