If the deer graze S. Samuel

A few days ago, at dusk, when the moon was still a white circle drawn on a blue sheet, rumor of the presence of a group of roe in Venice. Seemed to be aggirassero calli, near Campo Santo Stefano, free. The heat made it impossible for any movement, but curiosity did not grant any respite. It was said that they had come to Venice from the mountains, precisely those forests where once our ancestors went to cut trees on trees, and then let them go down in the plains along the rivers. Once at the shore, in unimaginable amounts, those trunks wet and still smelling of forest, exhausted by the gradient descent and, were worked and planted in the lagoon to build the foundation of the city. In short, the deer were precisely those mountains and had decided to return to the valley, accompanied by two men who knew how to approach them. The items they sighted near San Samuele, Calle delle Workshops, in the area once occupied by shoemakers traces of which still remain today in the bas-relief depicting a shoe with bow, in the white column in front Ostaria Al Bacareto.

[article from The New Venice 19-07-2011]