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Sottoportico dei Preti

The Ponte Molin de la Racheta over the rio di Santa Caterina, a few steps from the sotoportego
The Ponte Molin de la Racheta over the rio di Santa Caterina, a few steps from the sotoportego Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

In Venice the street does not always go around the houses: sometimes it passes beneath them. The sotoportego is exactly that — a covered passageway running through the body of a building, and the city counts them in the hundreds.

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