02/09/2021
Campo delle Beccarie, this is one of the many parts of the Rialto market, the economic force of the Venetian Republic, a little like one might think of Wall Street in New York today; it was the area where butchers came to collect, cut and sell their meat. “Bechèr” is in fact Venetian for butcher, and they would set up their stands here in the campo, next to the long building lined with marble columns which was the famous fish market, certainly bigger and busier than the theirs would have been...
“The central market of Venice”: Campo delle Beccarie!
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https://casanova-tour.it/2020/11/19/campo-delle-beccarie-san-giovanni-elemosinario-and-san-giacometto/