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Rio Terra dei Gesuati

The Gesuati and Visitazione churches seen from the Zattere: at their feet runs the rio tera
The Gesuati and Visitazione churches seen from the Zattere: at their feet runs the rio tera Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

You are walking on water, even if you cannot see it: the Rio Tera dei Gesuati is a filled-in canal — the last stretch of the straight rio de Sant’Agnese that ran from the Grand Canal down to the Giudecca canal, vaulted over in 1864. In the paving the line of the old watercourse can still be read, straight as a ruler.

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