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Squares (campi and campielli)

Campiello della Comare

Palazzo Gradenigo seen from the Rio Marin: behind the 18th-century palace by Domenico Margutti opens the Campiello della Comare
Palazzo Gradenigo seen from the Rio Marin: behind the 18th-century palace by Domenico Margutti opens the Campiello della Comare Photo: Abxbay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A hidden campiello of Santa Croce, where you do not pass by chance: you have to look for it behind Palazzo Gradenigo, between Calle Lunga and the Rio Marin. The name tells a trade of other times: the ’comare’ was the midwife, and courtyards like this took their name from the woman who here helped the district to be born.

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