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Squares (campi and campielli)

Campo dei Frari

Campo dei Frari with the vera da pozzo at the centre and the flank of the basilica on the left
Campo dei Frari with the vera da pozzo at the centre and the flank of the basilica on the left Photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0

One of the broadest and quietest campi (a campo is a square) in Venice, all around the brick bulk of the Frari basilica. But mind: this space was not born as a square. Here stood the first church of the Franciscan friars, oriented the opposite way to today, with its apses towards the rio (a small canal).

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