Campo San Polo

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The Campo San Polo is the second largest square in Venice . Since the largest is the Piazza San Marco , it is also the largest campo in the city. It is located in the city sixth of the same name ( sestiere ).

View to the northwest over the square
Palazzo Soranzo on the north side of the Campos

building

The choir of the San Polo Church
Inscription on the outer wall of San Polo prohibiting the game and sale in the square in front of the church under threat of draconian penalties, August 10, 1611

In the southeast is the eponymous church of San Polo , which borders the square with its choir . It was consecrated in the 9th century and redesigned in Gothic style in the 14th and 15th centuries.

There are also several palazzi on the Campo, such as the Gothic double Palazzo Soranzo (San Polo 2169-71) from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century on the north side of the square, where the left side is the older. Then there is the Palazzo Balbi (San Polo 2172), the Palazzo Donà (2177), the Palazzo Maffetti , today Tiepolo, and the land access to the Palazzo Corner Mocenigo (2128). The Palazzo Corner Mocenigo is a work by Michele Sanmicheli . However, it directs its main facade towards the canal, i.e. the Rio San Polo , not towards the Campo. Only two three-arched loggias in the piani nobili point to the square . The Garzoni Palace on the west side was replaced by a residential building in the 19th century.

In 1840 the neo-classical building of the Tipografia Tasso printing works (San Polo 2156) was built on the north side of the Campo .

history

While the square was still used as pasture and gardens in the Middle Ages, and its east side served as a north-south connection for pedestrians, it was completely paved in 1493. In addition he received one of the numerous fountains in the city. From 1497 masked balls were performed. The campo turned into a place for public ceremonies and masses. There was also a weekly market on Wednesdays. The government tried again and again to stop gambling. A plaque from 1611, which was placed on the apse of the church of San Polo facing the square , threatens severe penalties.

On February 26, 1548 Lorenzino de 'Medici was murdered here together with his uncle Alessandro Soderini in front of the house of his lover Elena Barozzi . Lorenzino murdered Duke Alessandro de 'Medici in 1537 and fled to Venice, from there to Constantinople and Paris , and then returned to Venice. Duke Cosimo I de 'Medici made sure that Francesco Bibboni and a Bebo da Volterra rented a room next to Lorenzino in order to murder Lorenzino.

In 1783 around 120 young nobles built a kind of amphitheater to distribute bread and other groceries during the carnival , following the example of Giovedì Gnoccolaro from Verona .

In 1809 the Saturday market was moved from St. Mark's Square to Campo San Polo.

The narrow canal in front of Palazzo Soranzo was filled in in the 19th century, but the paving still shows its course.

literature

  • Norbert Huse : Venice. About the art of building a city in the water . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52746-9 , Chapter 2, pp. 35-60 Venetian places .
  • Jean-François Chauvard: Pour une histoire dynamique de la propriété venitienne. L'exemple de la paroisse de San Polo (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) , Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. In: Italie et Méditerranée , 111, 1999, pp. 7-72.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Barbara Zolezzi, Elisabetta De Pieri: Pax Tibi, Avogador Meus . Venice 2006, p. 7 f.
  2. ↑ Pompeo Molmenti : La storia di Venezia nella vita privata dalle origini alla caduta della repubblica . 1912, p. 199.

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 15 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 47.6 ″  E