Piazzetta and St. Mark's Square description and photos - Italy: Venice (Topic)

Piazzetta and St. Mark's Square description and photos - Italy: Venice. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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St. Mark's Square is the main square of Venice. It is conditionally divided into St. Mark's Square proper and Piazzetta - a small area between St. Mark's Square and the canal. St. Mark's Square is flanked by the long arched buildings of the Old Prosecutors and New Prosecutors. Procurators regulated the entire social life of the city, so their number increased year after year and it took the construction of a separate building to house this bureaucratic apparatus, which happened at the beginning of the 16th century. The building of the New Prosecutors later housed Napoleon's residence. Now it houses the Correr Museum, which houses a collection of paintings by Canova, Bellini, Carpaccio and some Byzantine artists.

Piazzetta can be called a magnificent atrium of the grandiose St. Mark's Square. Monuments, which rise in this small square are of exceptional importance: on the left it is framed by the Sansovine Library, and on the right - the Doge's Palace. In the old days, there was a food market at this place, and only in 1536 the doge's decree decreed that Piazzetta should be released from shops. Death sentences were carried out on the Piazzetta.

From the side of the pier there are two columns of red marble; they were brought to Venice from the East in 1125 and installed only in 1172. Column of St. Theodore bears the name of this saint revered in Venice, as his statue, consisting of parts of various origins, adorns the top of the column. On the other column is a bronze winged lion - the symbol of St. Mark, of unknown origin.

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