Calli are the streets of Venice. They range from relatively wide routes up to thrity feet across down to narrow passageways barely three feet in width. The word calle is used for main streets, generally connecting at both ends, while the word rame is used for a narrow alleyway that frequently comes complete with a dead end.

1. Calle Larga, S. Giacomo dall'Orio, Santa Croce
Here is a relatively wide calle that connects the Campo S. Giacomo dall'Orio with one of its bordering canals.

2. Calle dell'Isola, S. Giacomo dall'Orio, Santa Croce A calle off the main pedestrian routes is used for outdoor storage by the boatyard in the building on the left.

3. Calle del Paradiso, S. Lio, Castello
A narrow street has here been made narrower by the addition of barbacani overhead. These are extensions of the upper floors of the adjoining buildings out over the street. They are frequently marked by the sort of curly wooden supports that you see here. When barbacani are carried to their logical extreme, they meet in the middle of the calle and become sottoporteghi. To make the calle even more visually distinct at its entry, a stone tympanum has been added overhead, bearing a sculpture of the Virgin Mary.

4. Calle de Canonica, San Marco
Here is a relatively narrow calle, just behind the Patriarch's Palace next to the Basilica of San Marco.

5. Salizzada San Provolo at Rio del Vin, Castello
A salizzada is a street that was always paved, designed as a main street for an island.