sestieri

We have explored every 'sestieri', walking along the narrow alleyways, finding something amazing around each corner and every unexpected "square" We take an apt. in the areas away from heavy tourist traffic, shop groceries and absolutely love to 'live' for the week or so that we are there, as 'local' persons.

Un Bagno di Folla 2005

At one end the canal leads into the lagoon near Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into Saint Mark Basin: in between it makes a large S-shape through the central districts ( "sestieri") of Venice.

Art Knowledge News 2008

[The surveillance of the "sestieri" was assigned to the

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

In Venice, they put little posters of the dead on the walls in the sestieri: a picture and the name and dates, and maybe a little tribute.

Places That Are Lost Heather McDougal 2007

Wired News has a story today about a group of artists and technologists that have cobbled together a “location aware” PDA-based tour of one of the less-traveled sestieri of Venice, Castello.

Veniceblog: 2005

Wired News has a story today about a group of artists and technologists that have cobbled together a “location aware” PDA-based tour of one of the less-traveled sestieri of Venice, Castello.

Fodor's: Take Note 2005

The buildings -- they resembled neither palazzi nor tenements -- were taller than any others in the _sestieri, _ as though the prospering Jews, forbidden to surpass their borders, had instead expanded upward.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

The outgoing priors, associated with twelve of the leading citizens, two from each of the _sestieri_ or wards of the city, chose their successors.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

It's the northernmost of the six sestieri that make up the city, where real Venetians live, work, socialize and shop.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed CAROL MASON 2011

Fortunately, 10 minutes 'walk from our hotel was the Campo Santa Margherita, in Dorsoduro, one of Venice's six sestieri, or districts.

The Guardian World News 2009