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Calle dei Volti

A vaulted sotoportego (passageway) in Cannaregio: the arches joining the houses are the ’volti’ that give the calle its name
A vaulted sotoportego (passageway) in Cannaregio: the arches joining the houses are the ’volti’ that give the calle its name Photo: Abxbay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

In the maze of little streets behind Campo dei Gesuiti, the name comes neither from a family nor from a trade: the ’volti’ are the arches that join the houses on the two sides of the calle, mutually supporting them - a place-name that Venice repeated several times, and that survives here in the plural because the arches were many.

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