The Giudecca is another stronghold of the game, every little bar there having a stamped-down bowling alley at the back of it.
The longest direct broad walk in Venice--longer than the Riva--begins at SS.

Apostoli and extends to the railway station.

The name of the street is the Via Vittorio Emmanuele, and in order to obtain it many canals had to be filled-in.

To the loss of canals the visitor is never reconciled.
Wherever one sees the words Rio Terra before the name of a calle, one knows that it is a filled-in canal.

For perhaps the best example of the picturesque loss which this filling-in entails one should seek the Rio Terra delle Colonne, which runs out of the Calle dei Fabri close to the Piazza of S.Mark.When this curved row of pillars was at the side of water it must have been impressive indeed.
And now we must return to the Goldoni statue to resume that other itinerary over the Rialto bridge, which is as much the centre of Venice by day as S.Mark's Square is by night.