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The gondoliers' Madonna

The tabernacle of the gondoliers’ Madonna walled into the shoulder of the Ponte della Paglia, just above the water
The tabernacle of the gondoliers’ Madonna walled into the shoulder of the Ponte della Paglia, just above the water Photo: Maspez, Wikimedia Commons, CC0

The most photographed bridge in Venice is not the Bridge of Sighs: it is this one, the Ponte della Paglia, where thousands of people crowd every day with their phone lenses pointed at the white arch of the Prisons.

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