Campo Santa Maria Formosa
The
Campo Santa Maria Formosa
is a lively neighborhood square with a great location: It's in the
sestiere or district of Castello, north and slightly east of the
Piazza San Marco, and it's the sort
of place where you'll see locals shopping for flowers, tourists sitting
on park benches, and kids bouncing soccer balls off the walls of the
Santa Maria Formosa Church.
On this page, we've supplied two Google aerial photos:
Photo 1: This
overview shows the campo's location in relation to the Piazza
San Marco and Rialto. (Look for the Campo Santa Maria Formosa in the
upper right corner of the image. The Piazza and Basilica of San Marco
are at the bottom of the photo, and the Rialto Bridge is just visible
along the top left border.)
Photo 2: The
Chiesa di Santa Maria Formosa fills
one corner of the campo in this close-up photo. (On Saturday
mornings, you can browse racks of clothing from the charity shop inside
the building and on the square.) Other local landmarks include the
Zanibar bar (popular with young people), an outdoor snack bar that
operates year-round, and several imposing palazzi--among them,
the
Palazzo Vitturi, a renovated 13th Century Byzantine-style palace
whose piano nobile, or main floor, is now a moderately-priced
boutique hotel. Just off the square's southern end is the
Palazzo Querini Stampaglia, which houses a magnificent public
library and an art museum.
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