The Street of the Three Candle Makers

Many of the streets are named for professions that were practiced along them at a time when crafts people and merchants tended to cluster in their own districts. Take the charmingly named, street of the three candle makers for example. Another case in point is the street of the silversmiths which shall mark leads you down now. Some of the buildings have big archways with large roll down doors in them. You can imagine carriages driving through them long ago. And now you turn off this street into a narrow passageway to one side. The passage is so slender that you don't even think you could call it a stream. It's ground slants on both sides towards its centre to

Transcript

Play full episode

Transcript

Episode notes

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!

Get the app