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Squares (campi and campielli)

Campo Due Pozzi

The campo of the Due Pozzi in Castello, one of the oldest in the city
The campo of the Due Pozzi in Castello, one of the oldest in the city Photo: CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A name that is a gentle lie: in the Campo dei Due Pozzi, ’the square of the two wells’, at the far end of Castello towards San Martino, there is now only one well. But it is not a mistake: until the 16th century there really were two vere da pozzo (wellheads) here — the sources remember them as ’twin wells’ and in de’ Barbari’s map of 1500 they can be clearly seen, one beside the other.

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