When I walk inside the port I am looking for ships, but this time cats were more interesting. This black cat was sitting on an old boat in a yard, behind... a grapevine.
Some steps higher, on the same boat, we have another guardian.
The last one seemed more happy and relaxed on some gravel.
We have already seen the church of the “Luogo Pio” (Pious Place), which is the last part left standing of an old orphanage. This bridge was left in place when the canal was interred in 1898 and became, for almost a century, not more than a hump on the street.
When the first part of the canal was dug again few years ago, the hump regained its status of a bridge, even if still closed by a gate.
This body of water is now a dead end, until the reddigging of the old canal will be completed. This is the last of the New Venice bridges, until the next reconstruction of the “Ponte di Crocetta”.
About the four seasons, we have already seen four busts on the facade of the “Palace of the Marble Columns” and another full figure set giving its name to a kindergarten in “Corso Amedeo”.
It's easy to find the third set because it is on the restored facade of an old apartament building, still in “Corso Amedeo” and just in front of the kindergarten. This time all the four seasons are ladies.
“Circolo Culturale” is Cultural Circle, “Via Michon” is the name of the club, taken from the street, the sign is... at least a bit strange!
This is literally a Group for Figurative Arts, Ceramic and Sculpture which do not advertise itself very skillfully.
Last but not least, my favorite among these strange signs: the fake scroll of the philosophical “Schopenhauer Cafè”.
This ungainly contraption is a drill used for something called “micropoles”. We are in “Viale Caprera” and they are beginning the preliminary work for the re-digging of the old interred canal.
This summer they traced the old parapets, now they are drilling holes into them before pouring the concrete “spikes”. The scope is to consolidate the sides before the actual digging starts.
You can guess the length of these “spikes” from the pipe mounted on the drill in the first image, something around twelve meters.
Strange to imagine that everything between the two digs will be a canal full of water, sooner or later.
This is “Via Grande”, the whole half a mile of it, seen from the the entrance of the “Porto Mediceo”. At its far end we can see some of the buildings surrounding “Piazza della Repubblica”.
The “Ponte dell'Angiolo” (Angel's Bridge) seen from under the arch of the “Ponte di San Giovanni”, in background the ramparts of the “Fortezza Nuova”.
The name comes from a still existing old street, “Via dell'Angiolo”, which was probably so called after an ancient inn, the “Osteria dell'Angiolo”. The angel in the name was a coin of the time.
It was formerly called “Ponte dei Lavatoi Vecchi” (Old Lavoirs Bridge) because some old lavoirs, public places for the washing of clothes, were still located nearby until the last war.
