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The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Venetian Republic's naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was "one of the earliest large ...
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English: Map of the structure of the Venice Biennial 2005. Iolanda Pensa and graphic design by Federica Verona, 2006. Iolanda Pensa and graphic design by Federica Verona, 2006. Date
Giving shelter to refugees fleeing Hunnic invaders in the 6th century, Venice grew in the Venetian Lagoon in the northern Adriatic.From the very beginning, it focused on establishing and maintaining maritime trade routes across the Eastern Mediterranean to the Levant and beyond; Venice's commercial and military strength, and continued survival, was founded on the strength of its fleet.
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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", [2] [3] from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.
English: The third lion of the Door land the Arsenal of Venice comes from Delos and came here in 1716 by Francesco Nani Mocenigo, after his successful resistance headquarters the fortress of Corfu by the Turks, the Greek sculpture dated sixth century. The head of the end of the seventeenth as the foundation which bears the inscription: ANNO ...