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Streets (calli)

Calle Campazzo

Calle del Campazzo in San Polo: the early-20th-century houses built over the old open ground
Calle del Campazzo in San Polo: the early-20th-century houses built over the old open ground Photo: GodeNehler, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A calle (a narrow Venetian street) in San Polo whose name is a photograph of an erased landscape. ’Campazzo’, Tassini explains citing Berlan, is a corruption of the Italian campaccio: not so much a big field as an open, bare, unadorned piece of ground — a green gap between the tenements.

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