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Squares (campi and campielli)

Campiello Angaran and the Medallion of the Byzantine Emperor

Byzantine marble roundel, attributed to Constantinopolitan workmanship and dated to the 12th century by the parish: the sovereign among the shells of Campiello Angaran
Byzantine marble roundel, attributed to Constantinopolitan workmanship and dated to the 12th century by the parish: the sovereign among the shells of Campiello Angaran Photo: Ktiv, CC BY-SA 4.0

Campiello Angaran (a campiello is a small square) is a little pause in the dense fabric of Dorsoduro, a few steps from San Pantalon. Here a domestic façade keeps a marble roundel that turns an ordinary wall into a threshold to Byzantium.

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