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It was the circumscribed area near San Geremia that, from 1516, isolated and segregated the Jewish community from the rest of the Venetian inhabitants. There are three sections: the Ghetto Vechio, the Novo and finally the Nuovissimo, the latter only opened in 1633.

Today, despite the continuous flow of tourists, you can still feel a strong sense of belonging, commemoration and closeness to the victims of the genocide, with its numerous plaques bearing witness to what happened.

In the westernmost part of the sestiere, between the Cannaregio Canal (Rio) and the Agudi bridge (today Ponte di Ghetto Vecchio), there was a piece of land in the 14th century called Geto de rame, because there was a foundry with 14 furnaces there: the Geto Vechio. The small island in front of it, a muddy and slimy area where the foundry waste was dumped, was called the ‘terrain of the geto’ (clay). However, in the 15th century it housed a bombard foundry and took the name of Geto Novo.When the foundries became insufficient, the two plots of land were sold to noble families, such as the Minott

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