What name is given to the Jewish quarter established in Venice in 1516?

The Jewish quarter established in Venice in 1516 is called the Venetian Ghetto.

Venetian authorities ordered the city’s Jewish residents to live in an enclosed area on the site of a former foundry, or getto, in Cannaregio. Gates controlled access, and the community had to pay for guards and follow restrictions on movement. The arrangement was coercive, but the district also developed into a densely organized Jewish community with synagogues, schools, charitable institutions, and residents from different European and Mediterranean backgrounds.

The word “ghetto” later became a broader term for segregated urban areas. Venice’s original district included areas known as the Ghetto Nuovo and Ghetto Vecchio, names that can cause confusion because nuovo means “new” and vecchio means “old” in relation to the foundry sites. Napoleon ended the formal restrictions in 1797.