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Castello one of the six sestieri of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
The name Castello derives from fortifications located in the island of Olivolo, today the island of San Pietro di Castello, in the High Middle Ages.
There is the Basilica of San Pietro de Castello, the episcopal seat until 1807, the year of the transfer of the bishopric by Napoleon to the Basilica of San Marco, which until then had been the Doge's chapel used only for special occasions.
The Sestier de Castello is the most oriental of the city. It is divided in two by the imposing extent of land and water contained in the Arsenal, an old industrial engine and military-industrial complex serving the maritime power of the Serenissima.
Placed on the margins of the political center, Saint-Marc, and of the commercial center (Rialto) of the city, the Sestier always lived mainly on the activity of the Arsenal and on the maintenance and supplying needs of the ships; an activity that did not survive in the middle of the twentieth century when the technological development of production structures contributed to making this complex. inadequate.
The devastation and damage to the churches, convents and other buildings of the tip of Sant'Antonio and its surroundings in the nineteenth century led to the realization of the current public gardens and the realization of the Biennial of Art between 1894 and 1987.
The Pier Luigi Penzo Sports Stadium, the Francesco Morosini Naval Academy, and the urban area erected between 1924 and 1928 were built in the zone from the improvement of the lais around the small monastic island of Sant'Elena.
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Castello one of the six sestieri of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
The name Castello derives from fortifications located in the island of Olivolo, today the island of San Pietro di Castello, in the High Middle Ages.
There is the Basilica of San Pietro de Castello, the episcopal seat until 1807, the year of the transfer of the bishopric by Napoleon to the Basilica of San Marco, which until then had been the Doge's chapel used only for special occasions.
The Sestier de Castello is the most oriental of the city. It is divided in two by the imposing extent of land and water contained in the Arsenal, an old industrial engine and military-industrial complex serving the maritime power of the Serenissima.
Placed on the margins of the political center, Saint-Marc, and of the commercial center (Rialto) of the city, the Sestier always lived mainly on the activity of the Arsenal and on the maintenance and supplying needs of the ships; an activity that did not survive in the middle of the twentieth century when the technological development of production structures contributed to making this complex. inadequate.
The devastation and damage to the churches, convents and other buildings of the tip of Sant'Antonio and its surroundings in the nineteenth century led to the realization of the current public gardens and the realization of the Biennial of Art between 1894 and 1987.
The Pier Luigi Penzo Sports Stadium, the Francesco Morosini Naval Academy, and the urban area erected between 1924 and 1928 were built in the zone from the improvement of the lais around the small monastic island of Sant'Elena.