Asmus Freytag wrote: > There's a difference between house numbers and street > addresses. House > numbers, which number every house in a city or village > starting at 1 are > the older system and I have been in places where these house > numbers have > been maintained (although perhaps no longer used for postal delivery).
You have probably been in Venice... On each island in the town, houses are numbered starting from 1. That's why the house number in a Venetian addresses is often 4 digits, and why there is no reference to the usual Italian words for "road", "square", etc. _ Marco
