This is Lista di Spagna. The name Lista comes from the Italian verb meaning ‘to delimit’, and it represented a part of the street marked by white Istrian stones, within which foreign diplomats could enjoy diplomatic immunity. Here, where today we find the Grand Hotel Principe, was the Spanish Embassy to Venice. As well as being Lista di Spagna, this street is also a rio terà, which signifying that once a canal flowed through here and was later interred.
