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San Michele Cemetery

Cimitero di San Michele

Cemetery established following Napoleon Bonaparte's edict of 1804, part of the European circuit of monumental cemeteries. The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev, the Austrian physicist Christan Doppler, the American poet Ezra Pound, the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and the German-Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari are buried in San Michele Cemetery.

Address
Isola di San Michele
Getting there
Vaporetto line 4.1-4.2
Hours
Closed · opens 7:30 am tomorrow
Weekly hours
Mon7:30 am–6 pm
Tue7:30 am–6 pm
Wed7:30 am–6 pm
Thu7:30 am–4:30 pm
Fri7:30 am–4:30 pm
Sat7:30 am–4:30 pm
Sun7:30 am–4:30 pm

Listing from Wikivoyage: Venice/Cannaregio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.