The Spanish Synagogue (Scola Ponentina o Spagnola; Synagogue espagnole; Spanische Synagoge) in the Venetian Jewish old Ghetto at Campo delle Scole. (Vieux Ghetto Juif; Das Ghetto vecchio).The synagogue was founded by Jews expelled from the Iberian peninsula in the 1490s who reached Venice in the 1550s. The four-story yellow stone building was constructed in 1580 and was restored in 1635. It is a clandestine synagogue; which was tolerated on the condition that it be concealed within a building that gives no appearance being a house of worship form the exterior; although the interior is elaborately decorated.- The Venetian Ghetto was the area in Venice in which Jews were compelled to live by the government of the Venetian Republic. The Venetian Ghetto was instituted on 29 March 1516.Sestiere (district) of Cannaregio.Venice (Venise; Venedig ). Italy. 2020.