sottoportico

There is the Campo of S. Giacomo dell'Orio, which is gained purely by accident, with its church in the midst and a vast trattoria close by, and beautiful vistas beneath this sottoportico and that.

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

A green little house with a sottoportico under it, and then a little red brick prison and the ugly

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

Then the Malipiero, with its tropical garden, pretty marble rail and brown posts, and then two more antiquity stores with hideous façades, the unfinished stonework on the side of the second of which, with the steps and sottoportico, was to have been a palace for the Duke of Milan, but was discontinued.

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

These two palaces, which have a sottoportico beneath them leading to S. S.lvestro, stand on the site of the palace of the Patriarchs of Grado, who had supreme ecclesiastical power here until the fifteenth century, when the Patriarchate of Venice was founded with a residence near S. Pietro in Castello.

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903