From Piazza San Vito, taking away the same name, opens immediately left the arch of Portego Dark, the old Jewish ghetto. As in all cities, in fact, even in Treviso the Jewish community practiced usury, despite being banned. Within dell'arco input Portego Dark are still visible in stone the pillars on which rotate the pins of the gates.
Portego the Dark Path, the scene appears on the bottom is the channel of Buranelli, one of the most evocative of the city where the warm tones of the brick with you across the water clear of Cagnan de Mezo.
Here compound in a harmonious synthesis are all elements that characterize most of the urban landscape Treviso: the ancient houses of modest size, without so much respect for the alignment of facades and the symmetry of openings, the cobbled streets and small and Water currents in the channel. The houses on porches with arches that overlook the water will remind others that are in close Cagnan Grande at Ponte di San Francesco, or to Squero at Ponte Dante, or even to Scorzerie along the Siletto.
Only Channel of Buranelli you add the note kind of flowers and especially the presence of trees in the background of suggestive scene. Going back channel under the portico that flanks, there is a walkway with wrought iron railing while more upstream sull'opposta shore, a plaque dictated by Eugenio Montale indicates the house of John Comisso, the writer of Treviso which is worth remembering Some passages referring to the city of Treviso: "... these waters that are changing not only their strength, but their color from clear to cloudy, also the year under un'inquietudine inspire fantastic, as in dreams, which explains the formation in this city of so many artists, particularly painters. It is a city of squared stones, monotonous and cold, but, woven furniture and changing the watermark of water, including emeralds anywhere interlayed of trees and gardens, to be quite convincing a park spells of ... "(John Comisso, 1895-1969).
To the memory of Comisso is a dedicated opere Prize for literary and biographical narrative, which takes place annually in Treviso.