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Coordinates: 45°26′43″N 12°19′35″E. The main square of the Venetian Ghetto. The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice in which Jews were forced to live by the government of the Venetian Republic. The English word ghetto is derived from the Jewish ghetto in Venice. The Venetian Ghetto was instituted on 29 March 1516 by decree of Doge ...
Venetian Ghetto. Beginning in 1516, the Republic obliged the Jews to live in an area of the city where the foundries, known in Venetian as geto, had been situated in ancient times, to wear a sign of identification and to manage the city's pawnshops at rates established by La Serenissima. Separated into two sections, ghetto vecchio and ghetto ...
Etymology. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's English name was bestowed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri", from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.
Operation Bowler was an air attack on Venice harbour by Allied aircraft on 21 March 1945, as part of the Italian campaign in World War II. It was led by Acting Wing Commander, later Group Captain, George Westlake of the Royal Air Force. [1]
The Doge's Palace ( Doge pronounced / doʊ ( d) ʒ /; Italian: Palazzo Ducale; Venetian: 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.
Venice. / 45.43750°N 12.33583°E / 45.43750; 12.33583. Venice ( / ˈvɛnɪs / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia [veˈnɛsja], outdatedly Venexia [veˈnɛzja]) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open ...
Rialto Bridge. / 45.4380; 12.3360. The Rialto Bridge ( Italian: Ponte di Rialto; Venetian: Ponte de Rialto) is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri (districts) of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in 1173, and is ...
The foundation of Venice Doge's Palace and campanile of St. Mark's Basilica. The foundation of Venice is generally considered borne witness to by a manuscript of the Chronicon Altinate (11th-12th century) and, in a more recent era, by Marino Sanuto the Younger (15th-16th century) , who described the massive fire of the Rialto bridge in 1514, stating that: "Solum restò in piedi la chiexia di ...