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Ponte de la Scoazzera

The Ponte de la Scoazzera on the rio dei Scudi, in Castello
The Ponte de la Scoazzera on the rio dei Scudi, in Castello Photo: Unofeld781, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ponte de la Scoazzera crosses the rio dei Scudi, a small Venetian canal, in a quiet, out-of-the-way corner of Castello, between Calle Donà and Campo a fianco la Chiesa. It is a stone bridge, with a brick-and-stone structure and iron railings in a diagonal-cross pattern. Its name recalls the scoazzere: walled, open-air enclosures where the city’s rubbish was once collected.

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