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A Greek mercantile community numbering around 5,000 in the Renaissance and late Middle Ages was based in this district, with the Flanginian School and the Greek Orthodox Church of San Giorgio dei Greci being located here, of which the former comprises the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice [1] and the latter is ...
The Sestiere are the six traditional and historic districts of Venice, Italy. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ...
Apse on Campo dietro la chiesa. The Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli di Cristo (Church of the Holy Apostles of Christ), commonly called San Apostoli, is a 7th-century Roman Catholic church located in the Cannaregio sestiere of the Italian city of Venice.
The Venetian patriciate (Italian: Patriziato veneziano, Venetian: Patrisiato venesian) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided, together with citizens and foreigners. Patrizio was the noble title of the members of the aristocracy ruling the city of Venice and the Republic.
Compared to the Renaissance architecture of other Italian cities, in Venice there was a degree of conservatism, especially in retaining the overall form of buildings, which in the city were usually replacements on a confined site, and in windows, where arched or round tops, sometimes with a classicized version of the tracery of Venetian Gothic architecture, remained far more heavily used than ...
Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola . Its name derives from the Italian for "hard back", due to its comparatively high, stable, rocky land.
Bridges of Venice, Walking Tours, James Broos, Lulu.com, 2008 - 150 p., ISBN 978-0-6152-1958-5; Venezia *Ponte per *Ponte "--vita, morte e miracoli-- " dei 443 manufatti che attraversano i canali della città, Gianpietro Zucchetta, 1992, Stamperia di Venezia, Venise. site reprenant les ponts de Venise; liste de ponts avec caractéristiques
The church of San Simeon Piccolo in Santa Croce. Location of Santa Croce within Venice. Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy.. During the eleventh century, in 1273, [clarification needed] it was administered by the Hungarian nobleman and crusader knight Giovanni, member of one of the biggest Christian families in Hungary Renoldi, as reported by the book published in ...