Borgoloco

Isole Borgoloco (left) and Isola San Severo (right) are shown in yellow in the figure above.

Borgoloco is a rare place name used to describe certain spaces only specifically found in Venice. Among all the different street types found in Venice, borgoloco are one of the most difficult to understand. The obscure and infrequent use of the place name causes a lot of confusion for many of the tourists and visitors in the city. Translations vary from source to source, but the translation seems to be broken down from:

Borgo - village

Loco - native place

In other parts of Italy, Borgo is used to refer to small villages. Some people believe that borgoloco was historically used to refer to a place of lodging, but the origins for this as well as the translation seem to be obscure.

There are very few places where borgoloco are found in Venice. There is an island called Isole Borgoloco, which is located in Sestiere Castello just north of Piazza San Marco. This island can be reached by crossing Ponte Borgoloco onto Calle Borgoloco.

Borgoloco San Lorenzo.

See Also

• Street
• Streets

Bibliography

• Brofford, Kelsey; Larkins, Riley; Rovayo, Luis; Shea, Alexandra. Boats and Bottle Necks: Improving Mobility in Venice. Worcester Ma. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.2013

External Links

• Renaissance Rules Wordpress; The Borgoloco in Venice
• A Lover of Venice: Around Castello