Thursday, May 14, 2009

Campo del Angelo Raffaele

In the Dorsoduro, this large place was in the past a water tank. This explains its curved surface, with four groups of small holes, made to collect rain waters. the water was filtered by sand and gravel layers. In the middle of the place was a stone well, called a "Vera" ("Vere" in the plural). You can see some of them, often beautiful, in many places of Venice.

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