Beneath the portico of the Campo de Gheto Novo a door preserves, carved on its stone lintel, two words: BANCO ROSSO. It is the sign of one of the Ghetto’s three pawn banks, and tells the pact by which the Jews were allowed to settle in Venice.
Beneath the portico of the Campo de Gheto Novo a door preserves, carved on its stone lintel, two words: BANCO ROSSO. It is the sign of one of the Ghetto’s three pawn banks, and tells the pact by which the Jews were allowed to settle in Venice.
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