Orienteering Venetian Style

"Walk between campi, not along calli." That is, walk between the piazzas (as they would say in the rest of Italy), not down streets. This is the native, though not formalized, navigation method of Venice. For the visitor, it gives in a nutshell a method to orienteer in Venice. It does not avoid getting lost (a pleasure in Venice), but allows one to not worry that you are lost. One does this with a sparse map with only the outlines of the canals and campi of Venice, available in Supplements. How the historical structure of Venice evolved from Church to Campo to Neighborhood to a compilation of neighborhoods leads to is discussed and examples are given.