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The Arsenal produced the majority of Venice's maritime trading vessels, which generated much of the city's economic wealth and power, lasting until the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797. [9] It is located in the Castello district of Venice, and it is now owned by the state. [3]
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Download QR code; In other projects ... Map of the structure of the Venice Biennial 2005. Iolanda Pensa and graphic design by Federica Verona, 2006. ... Illustrator ...
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 ...
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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View of the entrance to the Venice Arsenal, by Canaletto, 1732. In the age of sail, arming or victualling a war ship, or war vessel had the meaning of equipping the ships with all the materials to navigate and the "victuals" necessary for the crew to subsist.
The Venice Arsenal's main gate, the Porta Magna, was built in the late 1450s and was one of the first works of Venetian Renaissance architecture.It was based on the Roman Arch of the Sergii, a triumphal arch in Pula in Istria, now in Croatia but then Venetian territory.