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The largest well in Venice

The octagonal wellhead at the centre of Campo San Polo: it looks small from afar, but it is the largest in Venice
The octagonal wellhead at the centre of Campo San Polo: it looks small from afar, but it is the largest in Venice Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

On the edge of the stone, in the middle of the campo, there is a carved inscription: AERE CIVICO, at the citizens’ expense, and a date, 1838. The well, however, is older. In 1493 the Commune had Campo San Polo paved and set a great vera (wellhead) in the centre.

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