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The women's prison market stall

The Fondamenta delle Convertite with the long façade of the women’s prison: here, on Thursday mornings, the stall opens
The Fondamenta delle Convertite with the long façade of the women’s prison: here, on Thursday mornings, the stall opens Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A big umbrella, a few crates and a line of customers with shopping bags: at first sight it is a vegetable stall like many. Then you notice the bars on the windows of the long white building behind, and you understand: this is Venice’s women’s prison, and the vegetables were grown by the inmates.

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