One of the two banks flanking the Rio Marin — its straight line betrays its artificial origin — in the parish of San Simeone Profeta: Venetians also call it ’dei Garzotti’, after the carders who worked here. They raised the nap of the cloth with the ’garzo’, the thorny teasel head, and they kept on this bank their scuola (devotional confraternity) dedicated to St Nicholas, first joined to that of the shearers and then independent.