Piazzetta (Venice)

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Piazza San Marco, view from St. Peter's Basilica. Mark Gondole at the pier by the pier Piazzetta - St. Column Mark

Piazzetta San Marco, a Venetian Venue between the coast of Canale di San Marco and St. Mark's Square. Mark. To the right (from the port side), there is the Doge's Palace and the Libreria Sansovinian's Renaissance building, which belongs to the national library of the Biblioteca Nationale Marciana. Jacobs Sansovin's work was completed in 1591. Some of the rooms were made available to visitors. You can see the rooms decorated with stucco and frescoes such as Andrea Palladio, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese and even Titian. To the Libreria Sansoviniana building, adjacent to the coast, adjacent to the mecca of Zecca, also designed by Sansovina. The building was built in the mid 16th century, in place of the previous mint. (Venetians beat their own coins).

Piazzetta was an unofficial meeting place for politicians and the spectators of the execution. Fours were held between two columns set near the coastal boulevard. Columns were brought from Constantinople in the twelfth century. At the top of one of them stands the statue of St. Teodora, and on the other - St. lion. Mark (the symbol of the Venetian Republic) made of bronze.

On the banks of the Canale di San Marco there is a port to which cruise ships, and the gondola. The church of San Giorgo Maggiore, the work of Palladia, and the right at the mouth of the Grand Canal, the Dogana di Mare, with a distinctive golden sphere supported by two atlantists and a statue of fortune, / p>

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