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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.

This fascinating door can be found in Calle del Pestrin. If you go looking you will find it near the red fire hydrant. I must have had luck on my side when I made this photograph, because when I returned to the same place in 2020, it did not look the same.
Street numbers can be a mystery here. Venice is divided into districts, or Sestiere. Each district will have street numbers which radiate from a starting point, such as a church or palace. Shakespeare had difficulty with addresses. In the Merchant of Venice he gives directions to Shylock's house. "Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but,at the next turning of all, on your left; marry, at the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turndown indirectly".