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- proper noun The smallest of the six
sestieri ofVenice ; includes theRialto market
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Examples
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I am in the San Polo district of Venice -- more residential than San Marco -- which is unfamiliar to me.
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Sant'Angelo-San Toma Back down Calle delle Botteghe past the restaurant is the Sant'Angelo traghetto stop, where you cross to the San Toma landing, in the San Polo quarter.
Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008
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Revived, I was off to the shops in San Polo for souvenirs.
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Here, take the boat across to the Fondamente del Vin in the San Polo quarter.
Venice Crossings: A Traghetto Tour Reveals the City's Other Side 2008
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I first encountered Toto Bergamo Rossi, one of the top art restorers in Venice, on a bridge over the Rio di San Stin, a canal near the immense Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, in the San Polo district of the city.
Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007
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He repeated a few of them in the presence of Madame dEtampes and Monsignor di San Polo, a great baron of France.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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He repeated a few of them in the presence of Madame dEtampes and Monsignor di San Polo, a great baron of France.
XLVII 1909
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It was early moonlight, and as they glided silently past the ancient marble church in the Campo San Polo the fairy-like beauty of it caught Merrihew by the throat.
The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901
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Santa Maria Formosa and San Polo (the largest in the city), and in the
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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When the physician arrived, the Count went downstairs; and at this moment a messenger came from Lorenzino's mother, begging the doctor to go at once to San Polo, for that her son had been murdered and Soderini wounded to the death.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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