The Public Restrooms in Venice
Anti-Urinal in Venise, Beware the feet!
You know that the Venetians invented the anti-urinal to prevent the men from urinating against walls?
The explanation is pretty as author Tiziano Scarpa illustrated in his small jewel of a guide “Venezia è un pesce” (Venice is a Fish), an absolute must read before coming to Venice:
“In certain corners out of the way, one can spot mysterious stone projections, in coated or visible bricks approximately a little more than a meter tall, shaped like stony slabs resemble the triangle of a descending roof, those in bricks in the quarter of a small, rounded dome, in an edge of flat giantess loaf, in a big quarter of panettone.
The functioning of the pieces of roofing and dome on the other hand is more ingenious: they are designed to make splash back spatters on the poor person of service and especially to make re-cast the channels of his wee on its feet..
In effect, often these anti-public urinals do not arrive up to the paving; the lower edge is ordinarily suspended in around thirty centimeters of the soil..
[...] Children, we did not know that were ancient anti-urinals, of Restrooms of Duchamp upside down, anti-urinals: they played it with the skill of the football (soccer?) players, which they made slip one after another and that they caught each in our tower when they landed the one on other one. This game had a name: scainèa, "Scalinella" (small staircase), to mean the appearance of a ski jump of this slanting steps.”
Tiziano Scarpa - Venezia è un pesce
Then, now that you know, use the public restrooms or those of restaurants and bars!
List of the Public Restrooms in Venice
Public Restroom in Venice
Santa Croce
Parking of Tronchetto
(Open by 8AM - 8PM)
Next to the Vaporetto stop ACTV
Piazzale Roma
(Open by 8AM - 8PM)
Rampa S. Chiara, 496
Cannaregio
San Leonardo
(Open by 7AM - 7PM)
Rio Terá San Leonardo, 1596
SS. Apostoli
Ramo Catecumeni, 4479
Castello
Bragora
(Open by 9AM - 8PM - Closed from November 1st till December 15th)
- Castello 4054 -
San Domenico
(Open by 9AM - 6PM - Open from June until October)
Calle S. Domenego, 1258
Dorsoduro
Accademia
(Open by 9AM - 8PM)
Campo de la Caritá, 1050
San Marco
San Bartolomeo
(Open by 8AM - 8PM)
Calle de la Bissa, 5404
Diurno San Marco
Open by 9AM - 8PM)
Calle dei Preti, 1264
Giardini Reali San Marco
(Open by 9AM - 7PM)
Piazza S. Marco at number... 0 !
San Polo
Rialto Novo
(Open by 7AM - 7PM)
Campo Rialto Novo, 545
