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Connected to the Doge's Palace by the Bridge of sights, the Prigioni Nuove have been built at the end of the 16th Century by the architect Antonio Contin. This building is organised around an inner courtyard called the Shaft. The jails, were dark, cold and wet, and the lowest levels could even be partly flooded in case of aqua alta. These Prigioni Nuove do not have to be mistaken with "The Leads", (I Piombi) secret jails, extremely hot in summer and cold in winter, situated under the roof of the Doge's Palace, and where Jacomo Casanova had been in detention before he succeded to escape in 1756.

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