The covered walkway between Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza of the fruit is called Face the rope. The name derives from sections of rope that there were administered in the Middle Ages to traders on cheat measures.l The penalty consisted in raising the offender for the wrists tied behind his back to upside down then let me fall.
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The fair is held vituperio of the stone on which the insolvent debtors were forced to fly three times in the buttocks after having stripped (the practice is the basis of the stay in canvas slings).
In front of the west facade of the exhibition stands the Palazzo appropriate that was related to the fair itself from an elevated passage through which were translated from the palace itself Exhibition debtors convicted because the Palace was due precisely the insolvent debtors' prison.
In a match of the four corners of the palace, in the outer wall are carved some unit of measurement that were used by merchants to avoid discussions on the quantities of goods traded.