How
to get there. From the Accademia
Galleries: as you exit the museum take the narrow street to the left,
Calle Gambara, after a turn to the left it becomes Calle Contarini
Corfù. Make a left turn at the end of the calle on Fondamenta
Priuli. Walk across the first bridge, Ponte de le Marevegie, and
continue ahead on Calle de la Toletta, which in Paolo Barbaro's words
has a "very musical stretch" as it turns and bends. On this calle
you will find one of the finest bookstores in all of Venice, Libreria Toletta,
specializing in architecture books. A few meters after crossing the
next bridge, Ponte Lombardo, you will be in famous Campo San Barnaba
where Katharine Hepburn fell in the canal in Summertime
(known as Summer Madness in
the UK) and
Indiana Jones came out of the rat-infested catacombs through a manhole
in Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade (the manhole doesn't actually exist). Cut across the
campo and exit it through the left-hand corner, Fondamenta Gherardini,
where you will see a fruit and vegetable stand barge (one of the oldest
in Venice; it's been there for centuries). After you pass the barge,
cross the infamous Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of the Fists or Punches)
where
working-class Venetians used to fight to the death and you will be in
Rio
Terà Canal, which after turning left ends in Campo Santa
Margarita.
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