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Calle dell'Olio o del Caffettier

The Calle de l’Ogio o del Cafetier in Santa Croce: two vanished trades — the oil depot and the coffee shop — in a single place name
The Calle de l’Ogio o del Cafetier in Santa Croce: two vanished trades — the oil depot and the coffee shop — in a single place name Photo: Bouzinac, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Two names, two shops, neither surviving: this calle (street) in Santa Croce, which skirts the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista towards the Fondamenta de la Latte, was called dell’Ogio and del Cafetier — an oil depot on one side of memory, a coffee shop on the other. As early as 1872 Tassini recorded with an antiquary’s precision: ’neither oil depot nor coffee shop have any existence on this site any more’.

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