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The red stone of the plague

The entrance of the sotoportego between Calle Zorzi and Corte Nova: the passage is a votive chapel and the red stone is in its paving
The entrance of the sotoportego between Calle Zorzi and Corte Nova: the passage is a votive chapel and the red stone is in its paving Photo: Matthias Süßen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A passageway like many others, between Calle Zorzi and Corte Nova. And yet, as soon as you enter, you realise it is a chapel disguised as a sotoportego (covered passage): the ceiling is coffered, painted blue and gold, on the walls open two marble shrines dedicated to the Virgin, four great votive canvases and the inscriptions.

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