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Corte del Volto Santo

The church of the Maddalena on the campo of the same name: the circular perimeter wanted by Tommaso Temanza
The church of the Maddalena on the campo of the same name: the circular perimeter wanted by Tommaso Temanza Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Along the Rio Terrà della Maddalena, just before the campo, an arch with a small stone relief opens the Corte del Volto Santo: one of those courtyards where an entire community left its signature. Here, from 1309, lived the silk workers who had come from Lucca, the exiles who brought the art of silk to Venice and made it one of the city’s industries.

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