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Squares (campi and campielli)

Campo San Silvestro

Campo San Silvestro with the church and the houses of the Rialto district
Campo San Silvestro with the church and the houses of the Rialto district Photo: Armin Kleiner, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Just a short walk from the Rialto market, there’s a campo (Venetian square) that seems to belong to another age: Campo San Silvestro, broad and paved, with a handsome vera da pozzo (wellhead) at its centre and the feel of a village in the world’s most mercantile city.

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