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'posted', it is possible to read the words 'Osso
Duro'. Today it is one of the most sought-after areas of the
city and is especially popular with foreigners.
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the southern part of the city, starting with Punta della Dogana
that juts out into the San Marco basin like prow of a ship.
The 'dogana da mar' (sea customs house) of the Venetian Republic
was built in the seventeenth century and consists of many warehouses
that are hidden behind the facade. It end with the square tower
on top of which there are bronze statues that support the golden
ball on which Fortune stands. The work is by Bernardo Falcone.
After the tower we find the beginning of the Zattere.
 This
is a long jetty that goes as far as Santa Maria. It was built
in 1516 to unload the timber which rafts (zattere) brought down
the rivers from the Cadore area. Along the Zattere we find the
old Ospedale degli Incurabili. This was built by the Venetian
Republic in the sixteenth century to house those suffering from
chronic infections illnesses in one wing whilst the other wing
housed orphans. The Napoleonic edicts of 1806 turned the building
over to the military.
Not to be missed
Chiesa di San Trovaso
Chiesa di San Sebastiano
Ca' Rezzonico (The Museum of 18th-C. Venice)
Guggenheim Collection
Galleria dell'Accademia
Galleria Cini
Santa Maria della Salute
Chiesa dei Gesuati
Scuola Grande dei Carmini
Palazzo Ariani
Palazzo Zenobio
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Guide editor |
 Rio
del Malcanton: once a dangerous place because it seems that
one ran the risk of being rabbed.
Sotoportego
del Casin dei Nobili. This building was the haunt only of
the Venetian nobility. The goings-on inside were certainly not
so fine: gambling and 'ladies of the night'.
Ponte
dei Pugni. At the top of the bridge two Venice factions
fought: the Nicolottis against the Castellanis. The event was
immortalised in the paintungs by Bella, housed in the Fondazione
Querini-Stampalia.
Rio
de le Romite. 'Romite' is a dialect term for hermit. Pious
women known as Augustinian hermits retired here. They were sometimes
of very noble birth.
Campo
de le Becarie. There were many different butchers' shops
here. 'Becaria' derives from 'Becco' or 'billy goat', which
was meat that was butchered and sold here ('becher' is a dialect
term for 'butcher').
Fondamenta
della Toletta. Before there were bridges in Venice wooden
walkways known as 'tolette' were used to link one side of the
canal to the other.
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Dorsoduro, the name of which (literally 'hard ridge') probably
reflects the nature of the land in this area, slightly higher and
more solid than the other portions of land that emerged from the
lagoon. the old designation is still visible on the outside wall
of the monastery next to the church of the Vistazione at the Zattere.
Here, in an inscription placed above the hole in the wall where
public denouncements could be 
