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Piscina del Forner

The Piscina del Forner, the quiet lane between Campo San Vio and the Carità
The Piscina del Forner, the quiet lane between Campo San Vio and the Carità Photo: Bruno Rijsman, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Between Campo San Vio, a campo (square), and the Campo della Carità runs one of the quietest lanes in Dorsoduro: the Piscina del Forner. The name tells two stories in one: the ’piscina’ was the open basin of water at the mouth of a rio (a Venetian canal) now filled in, as the Rio Terà (a filled-in canal turned street) that follows it bears witness, and the ’forner’ was the baker’s oven that worked for the neighbourhood.

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