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                          Palazzo Priuli, overlooking the
                          quiet Fondamenta Osmarin, is a
                          fine Venetian Gothic palace. The
                          corner window is particularly
                          beautiful, but the early 16th-   CASTELLO
                          century façade frescoes have
                                                    SAN
                          long since disappeared.  MARCO
                                                   Locator Map
                                                   See Street Finder, maps 7, 8
                           2 San Giorgio dei Greci
                           Subsidence is the cause of the city’s
                           tilting belltowers; San Giorgio dei
                           Greci’s looks particularly perilous.








        RIO     SAN PROVOLO
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  CAMPO SAN   PROVOLO                              Coducci added Renaissance
                                                       1 . San Zaccaria
                                                   details such as this panel to
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    San Zaccaria       MVE    Pensione Wildner
    Jolanda                   is where Henry
                              James completed
                              Portrait of a Lady
                              (1881).
                                  The Statue of
                              Vittorio Emanuele II,       3 . La Pietà
                            the first king of a united   In Vivaldi’s day, the church became
                              Italy, was sculpted by   famous for the superb quality of its
                              Ettore Ferrari in 1887.  musical performances.
                                                  For keys to symbols see back flap

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