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The vault over the Rio Terà dei Gesuati

The church flank on the Rio Terà dei Gesuati: below, the great walled arch mouth of the volto, above the Cristo Passo tabernacle
The church flank on the Rio Terà dei Gesuati: below, the great walled arch mouth of the volto, above the Cristo Passo tabernacle Photo: LBM1948, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The street looks calm, but the church wall confesses: a canal ran beneath here. At the base of the flank overlooking the Rio Terà dei Gesuati, towards the Zattere, opens a great stone arch mouth, walled up and half-swallowed by the paving. It is not a doorway: it is the mouth of the volto, the vault under which the rio dei Gesuati passed inside the church.

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