VENEZIA PER BAMBINI - I LEONI E LE NAVI VENEZIANE
VENEZIA PER BAMBINI - I LEONI E LE NAVI VENEZIANE
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Questo è un percorso attraverso la potenza navale della Serenissima: si parte con la visita all’Arsenale, grande struttura industriale, portuale e militare in cui erano costruite e riparate le galee, le cocche, le triremi, le quadriremi e tutte quelle imbarcazioni troppo grandi per essere lavorate negli squeri sparsi a Venezia. All’entrata dell’Arsenale si è accolti da quattro leoni in marmo. La visita continua con il Museo Storico Navale alloggiato in antichi depositi di grano della Serenissima eretti nel 1322: il museo è ricco di cimeli di modelli sia appartenenti alla marina veneta sia a quella militare italiana. Lungo la Riva degli Schiavoni si giunge a San Marco per vedere gli altri leoni del percorso sulla facciata della basilica e sulle colonne del Palazzo Ducale e il drago di S.Todaro.
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Piazza San Marco view hide
One of the most famous and beautiful squares in the world, Piazza San Marco is at the heart of the historic city of Venice, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. St Mark's Square is called a piazza and not a campo to distinguish it from the other city's squares and to emphasis its singular beauty. The square was paved in herringbone-pattern bricks: this was in fact the original paving style that used to line the streets and squares of Venice. The present-day paving stones date from 1723. Enclosed on three sides by the arcaded buildings of the Procurators, it was once a remarkable showcase for feasts, ceremonies, tournaments and fairs.
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Venetian Arsenal view hide
The Arsenale di Venezia is a shipyard and naval depot that played a leading role in the Venetian empire-building. It was one of the most important areas of Venice, lying in the Castello sestiere. It already existed in the early 13th century, as mentioned in Dante's Inferno. The name probably comes from the Arabic Dar al Sina’a ("Dockyard") and the concept was clearly Islamic as much as Byzantine. Initially the dockyard worked simply for the maintenance of naval ships, but in 1320 the Arsenal Nuovo was built much larger than the original. It enabled all the state's navy and the larger merchant ships to be both constructed and maintained in one place. Warships started to be mass-produced in the Arsenal and also new firearms at an early date, beginning with bombards in the 1370s. The Porta Magna, the Arsenal’s main gate, was built in about 1460 and was the first Classical revival structure to be built in Venice. Significant parts of the Arsenal were destroyed under Napoleonic rule, and later rebuilt to enable the Arsenal's present use as a naval base. It is also used as a research centre, an exhibition venue during the Venice Biennale and is home to a historic boat preservation centre.
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Museo Storico Navale view hide
Founded in 1919 after the 1st World War, located in Campo S. Biagio, in the vicinity of the Venice Arsenale, this is one of the most historical buildings from the XV century in Venice. It was utilized for centuries as a granary, to preserve the grain used to provide a particular type of long bread called “biscuit”. It was the Arsenal, “the most distinguished naval historical monument that exists in Italy” to give life, at the end of the seventeenth century, to what can be considered the ancestor of this museum: “The House of Models “.
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