San Polo

Three of these are on the north side of the Grand Canal, Canareggio, which includes the railway station on the west, San Marco in the middle, and Castello, including the Arsenal and the Public Gardens on the east.

On the other side of the Canalazzo are the Sestieri of Santa Croce, facing the railway station and verging to the west, San Polo, occupying the central position, and Dosoduro, a large sestieri which embraces not only the region lying to the south of the San Marco end of the Grand Canal, but also further south again, the separate island of the Giudecca.

The houses in each of these sestieri are numbered straight on, not according to the number of houses in a given street or calle.

Thus, one of a group or row of half a dozen dwellings may be the proud possessor of a numerical title which runs into four figures.

Those who live long there even feel a subtle difference between the different sestieri of the city.

the stream of passengers across a bridge, they always seem like walking figures on a stage, the gestures of loiterers by a fruit stall, the physiognomy of young mothers with infants in their arms, or of children playing in seemingly dangerous proximity to a canal.

The arrangement, even the odour of the shops, are not quite the same in Canareggio as in Dorsoduro, in San Polo as in Castello.

every campo has its own group of shops within it or in an adjacent calle which supplies the neighbourhood with all the necessaries of life and first as a social centre a place where a coterie of intimates drop in and talk and glance through the halfpenny paper of the day is the farmacia the chemists it is usually a decidedly attractive place neat and bare with its few patent medicines locked away in cupboards and its shelves decorated with long rows of lovely faience jars some of them plain blue and white others decorated in delicate coloured designs they are more artistic symbols of the trade than rosamond's purple jar and are or were useful as well as ornamental nowadays however they are apt to stand empty partly because they are too valuable for daily handling collectors give high prices for them when they come into the market partly because dame fashion contrives to rule the physician almost as much as the dressmaker and the drugs which cured our forefathers are now thus the jar bearing as part of its design the name triacca must needs remain unfilled though the city was once famous for this compound manufactured publicly on a fixed day in the year with extraordinary solemnities we have it on bacon's authority that venice treacle was one of the few medicaments of his time which was mixed according to established and unvarying formulae two or three points about italian dispensing are worth noting No patent medicine may be sold unless its ingredients are published on the cover.

But I think when you go to Paris, go to Amsterdam, go even to Antwerp, and you have kind of the same thing, so I think it's more the reputation than the reality.

Um, of course, I think we are spoiled here that we are on the s- on the, on this side of, of the Grand Canal, and in San Polo, it's already always a little bit more quiet.

And of course, we are now, yeah, we have a very happy life here.

And obviously, the palazzo, Pisani, ta- dates back to the late 1400s.