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The field was dedicated to San Paolo or Polo according to the Venetian wording. In this place the market was held, which used to last more than a week, only to be reduced to Wednesday only and after the fall of the Republic it was moved to Saturday…

Campo San Rocco is one of the few fields that is not crossed or bordered by a canal. The field is enclosed between the Church, the School and the Scoletta di San Rocco and the apse of the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. Initially the…

The founding element of this field is certainly the Church of San Stae which is said to have been built before the year 1000 even if the first official sources date back to 1127. The place of worship, which during its existence underwent numerous…

The entrance to the field in the direction of San Provolo is noteworthy for its late-Gothic portal (built by the Bon school), decorated with bas-reliefs depicting San Zaccaria (above) and the Virgin and Child flanked by San Giovanni Battista and San…

Campo Sant'Agnese, as happens for most of the Venetian fields, takes its name from the adjacent place of worship dedicated to the patron saint of young women and gardeners. The sixteenth-century well from the field is of considerable size, made up…

The campo takes its name from the adjacent church dedicated to the saint Luigi Ludovico d'Angiò, known in Venice as Alvise, whom, according to tradition, the Venetian noblewoman Antonia Venier saw in a dream in the 16th century. It is said that the…

Almost rectangular in shape, Campo Santa Margherita takes its name from the church of the same name, now deconsecrated and used as the Auditorium of the Ca 'Foscari University, which closes the north-eastern end of the area. In the mid-nineteenth…

The Campo di Santa Maria Formosa is one of the largest in Venice and is located on the border between the San Marco and Castello districts. In the past it was one of the major centers in the eastern part of Venice, both at a civil level due to its…

The area initially had sandbanks or swampy areas, so much so that the northern lagoon border was located about where the Scuola Grande di San Marco is located today. In 1234, under the dogado of Jacopo Tiepolo, the land was granted to the Dominican…

Ernesto Canal, known as Tito, was born in 1924 into a family of ancient patrician origin, considered at the end of the republic to be among the barnaboti (impoverished original families). His father had a foundry in Cannaregio, where they worked…

Giuseppe Canali, painter and poet, was born in Venice on 21 March 1885. After taking private classical lessons at home, due to his father's excessive sense of protection, he began to frequent the studio of the family friend Alessandro Milesi, who…

The sestiere of Cannaregio, the most densely populated district of Venice, is located north-west of the city and is traversed by long, parallel canals. In all probability its name derives from a mispronunciation of the term 'Cannarecium', a marshy…