What is the best area for a pleasant walk in Venice, with beautiful views and interesting sights along the way?

There is truly nowhere in Venice that you could walk and not find interesting sights and beautiful views! We were there last month and spent a lot of time walking, never found an ugly area.

I agree. I suppose my favorite walk would be to start at the station, walk towards San Rocco, then south to the Accademia, then east San Marco, and then down to Castello. This would essentially be a "intro to Venice" walk and would take about an hour and a half to two hours (you're basically walking across the entire city). And it would end you up at my favorite part of Venice.. Castello (wonderfully undertouristed for such a touristy city).

Hi,

Have you looked at the miniguide for Venice on fodors.com?

we were there in march for a week and bought a "chorus pass", which gave us entry to 15 churches.
by making a couple of churches our "destination" for walks every day, we found that we covered a great deal of venice, and probably walked areas we wouldn't have otherwise stumbled on.
all the areas were enjoyable.
but probably the least "scenic" to me would be the areas between san marco and the rialto bridge, where there are lots of shops and people..
and the most scenic, in the quieter areas such as dorsoduro and cannaregio..or the arsenale.

You'll almost certainly "walk the walk" from, say, the Accademia Bridge to San Marco. I would add to that 2 favorites: explore Dorsoduro and walk (meander) from the Rialto Bridge to the Church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo (San Zanipolo).

One thing I wouldn't miss doing is to walk in Venice early in the morning. The canals are like glass and the streets quiet. My bets pictures are from this time of day.

mcbetsy mentions early morning walks..
i agree..
and the best pictures i got?...
during a very dense early morning fog.
not only are the canals beautiful and eerie, the sounds that come from each of the boats..vaporettos, ferries etc..are something i still hear and yearn for~

Use San Marco square as a starting and ending point, staying sort of parallel with the grand canal. Follow the signs on the buildings that are easy to find which will guide your walk across the necessary bridges from island to island, hitting all the tourist places. When the sights dry up, don't go there. Skip the island of Murano (need a vaporetto to get there). You will not see the great glass they make there.

I thought the website www.venicebanana.com had good information and they had detailed walks described (with pics, too). I'm planning to test some out when I go this fall.

Jerominu, why skip Murano? I thought the glass factory sounded interesting. Where can you see the best glass?

Just returned from my fourth visit to Venice. A favorite thing for me is to wander early, 7 AM to around 9 AM, and watch the unloading of all sorts of foods and supplies on the small canals. Yes the water is eerily beautiful early in the AM and the bars are full of workers getting their first coffees. Fun to join them standing at the counter. I especially love walking in Dosoduro and around The Frari church, Campo S Margarita, hearing the bells chime, and just breathing in the atmosphere. AH Venice!!!!