Ca' Barba

Top choice in San Polo & Santa Croce


Hidden down a quiet lane just around the corner from Rialto Market, this B&B offers exceptionally good value with four spacious rooms with wooden ceiling beams, black-and-white Venice photographs, modern bathrooms, coffee machines and huge smart TVs. A breakfast basket is delivered to the room every day. Host Alessandro is a good source of advice, even loaning out Venice-themed books.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby San Polo & Santa Croce attractions

1. Fondazione Prada

0.04 MILES

This stately Grand Canal palace – designed by Domenico Rossi and completed in 1728 – has been commandeered by Fondazione Prada, which is renovating the…

2. Pescaria

0.08 MILES

Slinging fresh fish daily for 700 years and still going strong, Venetian fishmongers are more vital to local cuisine than any single chef. Glistening fish…

3. Ca’ Pesaro

0.08 MILES

The stately exterior of this Baldassare Longhena–designed 1710 palazzo hides two intriguing art museums that could hardly be more different: the Galleria…

5. Rialto Market

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Venice’s main market has been whetting appetites for seven centuries, with fruit and vegetable stands abutting the rather more pungent Pescaria. To see it…

6. Ponte de le Tette

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‘Tits Bridge’ got its name in the late 15th century, when neighbourhood prostitutes were encouraged to display their wares in windows instead of taking…

7. Chiesa di San Stae

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The influence of Palladio swirls around neoclassical St Eustace's Church (completed in 1709), from the dazzling white, statue-heavy facade facing the…

8. Fabbriche Nuove

0.13 MILES

Flanking the Grand Canal, this porticoed complex was designed by Jacopo Sansovino in the mid-16th century.