San Marco (Sestiere di Venezia)
San Marco is one of the six districts ( Sestieri ) of the old town of Venice . The city sixth extends over an area of 34 hectares . It is considered a spiritual and political center, as the government and administration of the Republic of Venice took their seat there in the Doge's Palace and the buildings on St. Mark's Square . San Marco had (as of December 12, 2007) 4,236 inhabitants, who are in the four parishes of San Moisé (with the church of Santa Maria del Giglio ), Santo Stefano , San Luca and San Salvador (with the churches of San Bartolomeo and San Zulian ) to distribute.
Extension and Limits
San Marco is bounded to the west by the lower course of the Grand Canal , more precisely by its left bank, and a body of water runs south as well, namely the Bacino di San Marco . To the north and east, on the other hand, the neighboring sixths of the city, Cannaregio and Castello , border the quarter. The island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the south-east, across the 400 meter wide Canale di San Marco and opposite St. Mark's Square, also belongs administratively to San Marco, but not the Giudecca , which is only 40 meters to the west , which is part of Dorsoduro .
Name and story
The sestiere derives its name from the Basilica di San Marco , which was built in 832 at the request of Doge Giovanni Particiaco as the Doge's house chapel.
When the sestieri organization was introduced in 1175, the quarter consisted of 16 contrade . These parishes included San Basso, San Geminiano , Santa Maria in capite brolii (Ascensione), San Zulian , San Salvatore, San Bartolomeo , San Luca, San Paterniano, San Benedetto, Sant'Angelo, San Vidal , San Samuele , San Maurizio, Santa Maria Zobenigo , San Fantin and San Moisè . In 1581 there were 21,745 inhabitants in the sestiere, of which 5857 capi famiglia ( heads of families) and 314 nobili huomini (nobles). When Napoleon had numerous religious institutes closed in 1806, the parishes of San Geminiano, Sant'Angelo, San Paterniano and San Basso were among them; L'Ascensione has been converted into a hotel. The filling of canals, especially in the 19th century, meant that San Polo only has twelve islands today.
Buildings
The most important buildings in the sestiere include the buildings on St. Mark's Square with the Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica ( Basilica di San Marco ), the Old Procuraties (Procuratie vecchie) and the New Prokuratien, which Napoleon had built, as well as the Teatro La Fenice . In San Marco there are a total of around 5500 houses, which are numbered consecutively. This system was introduced during the Napoleonic reign.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ' N , 12 ° 20' E
Individual evidence
- ^ Venezia. Touring Editore, 2002, p. 278.
- ↑ What is meant is St. Mark's Square.
- ↑ Pompeo Gherardo Molmenti: La storia di Venezia nella vita privata dalle origini alla caduta della Republica , Venice 1905, p. 31.
- ^ Daniele Beltrami: Storia della popolazione di Venezia dalla fine del secolo XVI alla caduta della Repubblica , Milani, 1954, p. 61.
- ^ Giovanni Distefano, Franco Rocchetta: Atlante storico di Venezia , Supernova, 2008, p. 503.
- ↑ Sante della Valentina: Degli edIERTi consacrati al culto divino in Venezia o distrutti o mutati d'uso nella prima metà del secolo XIX note storiche tratte da un catalogo inedito di Don Sante della Valentina , Gaspari, Giorgio Franz in Monaco, Venice 1852, p 19 f.