The Dragon and the Glass Umbrellas

Walking Tours of Venice

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High up on the corner of the Marzaria, where it debouches into Campo San Salvador, is an arresting artefact that takes the form of a wrought-iron dragon, which holds in its mouth a cluster of three brightly coloured glass umbrellas.

​The dragon originally acted as a sign for a leather goods shop, which also sold umbrellas. The shop opened its doors in the 1870s, but closed down at the end of the twentieth century. 

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