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Squares (campi and campielli)

Campo Santa Sofia

Campo Santa Sofia on the bank of the Grand Canal, with the gondola-ferry linking the campo to the Rialto market
Campo Santa Sofia on the bank of the Grand Canal, with the gondola-ferry linking the campo to the Rialto market Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Campo Santa Sofia is one of the very few campi (squares) in Venice that open directly onto the Grand Canal: a bank open to the water right opposite the Rialto market, at the point where the frenetic Strada Nova meets the canal.

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