If this is intended as Palata, the site is on the eastern coast of Italy in the region of Molise, between Pescara and Foggia and east of Rome. However, Robin Simon has suggested an identification of the site as the rio della Palada on the Giudecca, Venice. If that is correct the church in the left background could be Sant' Eufemia, although a drawing by Canaletto of c.1730 shows that it then had a taller tower with a spire.