Capitolo 3 The active ferries on the Great Canal

8 - Santa Maria del Giglio
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The ferry at S.Maria del Giglio.	This ferry allows to go from the area of S. Mark to that of Salute and of Zattere, in the east part of the sestiere of Dorsoduro, and vice versa. On the day when in Venice it is celebrated the Madonna della Salute, the ferry is substituted by a "votive bridge" mounted on boats to favour the continuous flow of Venetians to the Salute Temple.
The ferry at "Calle del Traghetto".	Landed at "Calle del Traghetto", we are at once in the transversal Calle S. Gregorio. Going left we arrive to the church of the Madonna della Salute. Going right one goes to Campo S. Vio and Accademia. Before Campo S. Vio one can find Ca' Dario and, near there, the "Guggenheim Museum", wide and important private collection dedicated to contemporary painting. Getting off at S.Maria del Giglio one arrives at once at Campo S.Maria Zobenigo, on the route S. Mark - S.Stefano.
	From here , going right , one enters into Via XXII Marzo and can go on to Campo and Salizzada S. Mois� till S. Mark's square. Via XXII Marzo is one of the streets realized , after the Italy unity, thanks to the demolition of many houses and with the purpose to create new way spaces that were not the tangle of calli, characteristic of the lagoon city. The date remembers the anti-Austrian rebellion of 1848. Going left one reaches Campo S. Maurizio and from there to S. Stefano. If from the ferry we go on into the calli that are in front of us, we easily arrive to the La Fenice Theatre, recently destroyed by a fire and of this is begun the reconstruction.