Traveling along Strada Nova towards Rialto - in the San Marcuola district and immediately after the bridge named after an icon depicting the Blessed Virgin - you come across this small field on the left, distinguishable by its inscription "Volto Salto" visible directly from Rio Terà della Maddalena , on the jamb of a sub-portico.
This small courtyard, with access also from the Rio dei Servi, owes its name to the cult of the Holy Face of Jesus Christ, the name with which still today in Lucca it indicates a crucifix considered miraculous and which they worshiped in a cedar carved
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