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Something to know about Venice
Venice comprises more than one hundred islands, almost a hundred and fifty canals intersecting it, and connected up by almost four hundred bridges. 
All this extensive territory is divided into six areas called SESTIERI:
the Sestiere di Castello, a crowded urban area, on the eastern side and colled, it seems, from a castle that once stood on the extreme point towards the Lido Mouth;
the Sestiere di Cannaregio (bamboo district) because perhaps here more than elsewhere, it seems, marshes and bamboo thickets spread out; this is the extreme northern district of the city on the landward side and divided up by long parallel canals;
the Sestiere di Dorsoduro because perhaps on its dossi or ridges of land more resistant than the rest, it rose and spread out, embracing, besides the Giudecca island, the whole southernmost strip of the city from the punta della Dogana, to the arzere of Santa Marta, now the docks;
the Sestiere of San Marco the richest and most central;
the other two, San Polo and Santa Croce which took their names from the rispective chrches of San Polo (Paolo) and Santa Croce, the letter today having disappeared along with its convent.
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