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Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy.Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola.Its name derives from the Italian for hard ridge, due to its comparatively high, stable land.

Santa Maria della Salute (English Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal, at the Bacino di San Marco, making the church visible when entering the Piazza San Marco from the water.The Salute is part of the parish of the Gesuati and is the most recent of the so called plague churches.

The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is a church in Venice, northern Italy.One of the greatest churches in the city, it has the status of a minor basilica.It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district.The church is dedicated to the Assumption (Italian Assunzione della Beata Virgine).The Franciscans were granted land to build a church in 1250, but the building was not completed until 1338.Work almost immediately began on its much larger replacement, the current church, which took over a century to build.The campanile, the second tallest in the city after that of San Marco, was completed in 1396.

The Lido or Venice Lido (Lido di Venezia) is an 11 kilometres (7miles) long sandbar in Venice, northern Italy it is home to about 20,000 residents.The Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido every September.

The Bridge of Sighs (Italian Ponte dei Sospiri) is a bridge located in Venice, northern Italy.The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars.It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge Palace.It was designed by Antonio Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge) and was built in 1600.The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment.The bridge name, given by Lord Byron as a translation from the Italian Ponte dei sospiri in the 19th century, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.In reality, the days of inquisitions and summary executions were over by the time the bridge was built and the cells under the palace roof were occupied mostly by small time criminals.In addition, little could be seen from inside the Bridge due to the stone grills covering the windows.

The church of Santa Maria Assunta, known as I Gesuiti, is a religious building in Venice, northern Italy.It is located in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Campo dei Gesuiti, not far from the Fondamenta Nuove.

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a basilica church on the island of Torcello, Venice, northern Italy.It is a notable example of Venetian Byzantine architecture, one of the most ancient religious edifices in the Veneto, and containing the earliest mosaics in the area of Venice.

Caffe Florian is a coffee house situated in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice.It was established in 1720, and is a contender for the title of the oldest coffee house in continuous operation (Antico Caffe Greco in Rome was established in 1760).

The Fondaco dei Turchi (Venetian Fontego dei Turchi The Turks Inn) is a Veneto Byzantine style palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice, northeast Italy.

Poveglia is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy.A small canal divides the island into two parts.