![]() ![]() ![]() Two are decrepit old men, obviously locals, with crutches, perhaps props, and two are black men in their twenties dressed in the gangsta style favored by American rappers. Attracted to this site by the tourists are four beggars, two on each end of the bridge. Young Chinese women on the bridge itself pose in varying degrees of allure for photos while others jockey for positions from which to take selfies. ![]() On the other side of the bridge is a Chinese tour group of some fifteen people led by a women carrying a long stick topped by a yellow flag that she frantically waves to assemble her wandering troops. I know this because I hear a tour group leader pointing it out to her ten or so charges. It is also considered to be of the more picturesque. The bridge over the canal, the Ponte de la Feltrina, is one of 435 bridges in Venice (including the island of Guidecca, south of the six districts name earlier) that cross the city’s 182 named canals. From here Calle Zaguri crosses a canal known Rio de S. To the west Campo Santa Maria del Giglio opens unto a smaller square known as Campiello Feltrina. ![]()
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