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List Of Buildings And Structures In Venice
This is a list of buildings and structures in Venice, Italy. A * Ala Napoleonica * Arsenal * Ateneo Veneto B * Biblioteca Marciana C * Ca' da Mosto * Ca' d'Oro * Ca' Farsetti * Ca' Foscari * Ca' Loredan * Ca' Pesaro * Ca' Rezzonico * Ca' Tron * Ca' Vendramin Calergi * Campanile di San Marco * Campo San Polo * Campo San Samuele * Campo San Zanipolo * Campo Santa Margherita * Campo Sant'Angelo * Corte del Milion D * Dogana da Mar * Doge's Palace F * Fabbriche Nuove di Rialto (Erberia) * Fabbriche Vecchie di Rialto * La Fenice * Fondaco del Megio * Fondaco dei Tedeschi * Fondaco dei Turchi * Fondazione Querini Stampalia * Forte di Sant'Andrea G–O * Giardinetti Reali * Italian Synagogue * Loggette di San Marco * Mercerie * Mulino Stucky * Murano Glass Museum * Museo Storico Navale * Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo * Oratorio dei Crociferi P R * Rio di San Lorenzo S * Scala di Bovolo * Scuola dei Greci * Scuola della Carità, home of the Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campo San Polo
file:Chiesa di San Polo (Venice) -abside.jpg, Apse of ''Chiesa di San Polo'' file:Chiesa di San Polo (Venice) Plaque Abside .jpg, The plate of the prohibition of games. The Campo San Polo is the largest campo in Venice, Italy, the second largest Venetian public square after the Piazza San Marco. It is located in the Sestiere San Polo. Originally dedicated to grazing and agriculture, in 1493 it was entirely paved, a well (one of the few fountains to be found in Venice) being placed in the middle. It was subsequently used as the scene of many a bullfight, mass sermons and masked balls. After the 17th century the poor's market was moved here from Piazza San Marco. It remains to this day one of the most popular Carnival of Venice, Carnival venues and is also used for open-air concerts and screenings during the Venice Film Festival. Lorenzino de' Medici was assassinated here in 1548. Facing the church are the following buildings: *Church of San Polo *Palazzo Tiepolo *Palazzo Soran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fondaco Dei Turchi
The Fondaco dei Turchi (Venetian: ''Fontego dei Turchi'', tr, Türk Hanı) is a Veneto-Gothic style palazzo, later on named as the Turks' Inn, on the Grand Canal of Venice, northeast Italy. It was described by Augustus Hare in the 19th century as "a Byzantine palace of the 9th century, and one of the earliest buildings, not ecclesiastical, in Venice. .... A few years ago it was one of the most unique and curious buildings in Europe, and the most important specimen of Italo-Byzantine architecture, but it was modernised and almost rebuilt by the ... government in 1869".''Venice'', 1884, p. 76 , Smith Elder, Londongoogle books/ref> Early history The palace was constructed in the first half of the 13th century by Giacomo Palmier, an exile from Pesaro. The Venetian Republic purchased it in 1381 for Niccolò II d'Este, the Marquess of Ferrara. During its early history, the palazzo also served as a residence to many visiting dignitaries. Turkish quarters From the early 17th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fondaco Dei Tedeschi
The Fondaco dei Tedeschi ( Venetian: ''Fòntego dei Todeschi'', in literal English, "warehouse of the Germans") is a historic building in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the city's German (''Tedeschi'') merchants. Name The word ''fondaco'' comes from the Arabic ''funduq'' (), which refers to an inn-like establishment for traveling merchants. ''Tedeschi'' means Germans. History First constructed in 1228, the building was rebuilt between 1505 and 1508, after its destruction in a fire. The reconstruction produced a very functional four-floor building which surrounds a grand inner courtyard. Its architecture is typical of the Italian Renaissance style. Like the Fondaco dei Turchi, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi combined the functions of a palace, warehouse, market and restricted living quarters for its population, in this case mainly Germanic merchants from cities such as Nuremberg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fondaco Del Megio
The Fondaco del Megio ( Venetian, also Fontego; Italian: , ) is a palace in the ''sestiere'' (quarter]) of Santa Croce (Venice), Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy. Located near the Palazzo Belloni Battagia and the Fondaco dei Turchi, it faces the Canal Grande and is opposed to the church of San Marcuola of Cannaregio. It was built in the 13th century as a grain depot, but later was used to store millet, maintaining this function until the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797. It currently houses an elementary school. The palace is built in brickwork. There are three portals at the ground floor and thirteen small windows. Decorations include a row of merlons at the top, and a basrelief with the Lion of St. Mark (a modern reconstruction of the original, which was placed on every public building of the Republic). (Venice) Fontego del megio - Leone di San Marco.jpg, Lion of St. Mark The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a wing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice (, "The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre" and in the history of opera as a whole. Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice became the site of many famous operatic premieres at which the works of several of the four major bel canto era composers – Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi – were performed. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of three theatres to fire, the first in 1774 after the city's leading house was destroyed and rebuilt but not opened until 1792; the second fire came in 1836, but rebuilding was completed within a year. However, the third fire was the result of arson. It destroyed the house in 1996 leaving only the exterior walls, but it was rebuilt and re-opened in November 2004. In order to celebrate this event the tradition of the Venice New Year's Concert started. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doge's Palace, Venice
The Doge's Palace ( it, Palazzo Ducale; vec, Pałaso Dogal) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Republic of Venice. It was built in 1340 and extended and modified in the following centuries. It became a museum in 1923 and is one of the 11 museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. History In 810, Doge Agnello Participazio moved the seat of government from the island of Malamocco to the area of the present-day Rialto, when it was decided a ''palatium duci'' (Latin for "ducal palace") should be built. However, no trace remains of that 9th-century building as the palace was partially destroyed in the 10th century by a fire. The following reconstruction works were undertaken at the behest of Doge Sebastiano Ziani (1172–1178). A great reformer, he would drastically change the entire layout of the St. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogana Da Mar
Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the ''Dogana da Mar''. It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal (Venice), Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: Santa Maria della Salute, (hence the area is also known as Punta della Salute), the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip. Geography and history Punta della Dogana is located between the Grand and Giudecca Canals at the tip of an island in the Dorsoduro district. Adjacent to each other are the Dogana da Mar, Patriarchal Seminary, and Santa Maria della Salute. It is diagonal from the Piazza San Marco. The point was used for docking and customs as early as the beginning of the 15th century. The temporary structures built to store merchandise and customs workers were replaced by the Punta della Dogana, whose construction began in 1677. Dogana da Mar The museum's art is housed in and around the Dog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corte Del Milion
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Campo Sant'Angelo
Campo Sant'Angelo, also known as Campo Sant'Anzolo, is a city square in the sestiere of San Marco, in the city of Venice, Italy. The piazza is asymmetric, and bounded on the South-West by the Rio di San Anzolo, across which stands the former monastery of Santo Stefano, Venice, Santo Stefano. In the piazza is a small building, the 10th-century Oratorio di Sant'Angelo degli Zoppi, once allied to a ''school for the crippled''. The bounds of the piazza include the Palazzo Trevisan Pisani, the Palazzo Gritti Morosini, and the Palazzo Duodo a Sant'Angelo. In this latter palace, the composer Domenico Cimarosa died while in exile from the Kingdom of Naples. Palazzo Morosini in Campo Sant'Angelo (Venice).jpg, Palazzo Gritti Morosini San Marco, 30100 Venice, Italy - panoramio (476).jpg, Palazzo Trevisan Pisani Palazzo Duodo a Sant'Angelo (Venice).jpg, Palazzo Duodo a Sant'Angelo and one of the two well heads Sant'Angelo degli Zoppi (Venice).jpg, Oratory of the Annunziata Campo Sant'Angelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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