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Bar food in Venice, Italy A row of cicchetti topped with mortadella, dried tomatoes and smoked salmon respectively. Cicchetti (Italian: [tʃikˈkɛtti]; sg.: cicchetto; from the Latin ciccus, meaning 'small quantity'), also sometimes spelled cichetti or called cicheti in Venetian language, are small snacks or side dishes, typically served in traditional bacari (pron. bàcari; sg.: bacaro, pron ...
Piazza San Marco (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjattsa san ˈmarko]; Venetian: Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").
Pietro Liberi (1605–1687), painter, active in Venice after 1643; Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489–1565), painter of Venice and Lombardy; Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515), architect and sculptor, active in Venice; Baldassare Longhena (1598–1682), architect, born and worked in Venice; Pietro Longhi (1701/2–1785), painter, born in Venice
The original Horses inside the St Mark's Basilica The replica Horses of Saint Mark. The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing).
The Palazzo Barbaro a San Vidal South facade of the palace located on the side of the Canal Grande.. The Palazzi Barbaro—also known as Palazzo Barbaro, Ca' Barbaro, and Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis—are a pair of adjoining palaces, in the San Marco district of Venice, northern Italy.
Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut, the View of Venice, 1500 Venice in the late 17th and early 18th centuries The Grand Canal in Venice, c. 1730. 421 CE. Traditional date for founding of Venice, with consecration of San Giacomo di Rialto. [1] First mention of Poveglia. 452 – "Consular government adopted." [1] 697 – Paolo Lucio Anafesto becomes ...
The palaces in Venice are the following: Royal Palace (Venice) Ca' da Mosto; Ca' d'Oro; Ca' Farsetti; Ca' Loredan; Ca' Pesaro; Ca' Rezzonico; Ca' Vendramin Calergi; Ca' Zenobio degli Armeni; Palazzo Adoldo; Palazzo Ariani; Palazzo Barbarigo; Palazzo Barbarigo Nani Mocenigo; Palazzi Barbaro; Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff; Palazzo Bernardo Nani ...
Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛt͡sja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 438 bridges. [3]