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Streets (calli)

Rughetta Ravano

The Rughetta del Ravano in the early morning: the narrow commercial calle a stone’s throw from Rialto
The Rughetta del Ravano in the early morning: the narrow commercial calle a stone’s throw from Rialto Photo: Tommie Hansen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

A few metres of calle (street) behind the Rialto market, and a name that smells of the shop counter. ’Rughetta’ is the diminutive of ruga, the street flanked by shops: this lane runs inside the commercial heart of the city, between the Ruga Vecchia and the San Silvestro area, where goods arrived and were unloaded in rivers.

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