Venice, Italy: San Marco: St. Mark's Square: Sansovino Lodge

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dc.contributor.authorSheppard, Beth M.
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-20T16:32:35Z
dc.date.available2024-11-20T16:32:35Z
dc.date.issuedMay 22, 2017
dc.descriptionThis photograph shows the Sansovino Lodge at the base of the bell tower (in Italian: campanile) in St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy. Venice (Venezia) is a city in northeastern Italy that is built on a group of 126 islands separated by open water and canals, linked through 472 bridges. The historical island city is home to only 51K people, but a very popular tourist destination with about 60K tourists per day. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is renowned for its beauty, architecture, and artwork. The district of San Marco's defensive location on the large firm islet, with commanding views of the Basin of San Marco and its route to the sea and also the entrance to the Grand Canal, made it a natural choice for the fortified palace of the doge (chief magistrate). In the San Marco district, the square is the city's main gathering place for tourists and contains the city's most famous buildings, such as St. Mark's Basilica and the Doge's Palace. The bell tower, also known as the Campanile di San Marco, is 323 feet tall and stands in the southeast corner of the square. The Sansovino Lodge (Loggetta del Sansovino), designed by the Florentine architect Jacopo Sansovino, is an ornate building of marble and bronze with statues and relief sculptures. It was used as a gathering place for the Grand Council before sessions. The building was largely destroyed when the bell tower collapsed in 1902, but it was rebuilt using about half of the original material.
dc.identifier.otherSAM_4352.jpg
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14312/3186
dc.languageN/A
dc.metadata.catalogerRogers, Shelley
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-SA 4.0
dc.rights.holderSheppard, Beth M.
dc.sponsorThis image was made available, in part, through a generous grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
dc.subjectItaly
dc.subjectVenice
dc.subjectVenezia
dc.subjectSan Marco
dc.subjectSt. Mark's Square
dc.subjectPiazza of San Marco
dc.subjectBell Tower of San Marco
dc.subjectCampanile di San Marco
dc.subjectCampaniles
dc.subjectBell Towers
dc.subjectSansovino Lodge
dc.subjectLoggetta del Sansovino
dc.subjectJacopo Sansovino
dc.titleVenice, Italy: San Marco: St. Mark's Square: Sansovino Lodge
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