The front of the Corte Pisani arch on Lista Vecchia dei Bari: brick cusp, coat of arms with rampant lion and the two marble lions on the lintel Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
In Lista Vecchia dei Bari, at Santa Croce, this brick threshold leads into the Corte Pisani. It is not a mere passage: it is the only remaining fragment of a residence of the Pisani family, the land entrance that, through an inner courtyard, led to a palace today surviving only in the place name.
