San Marco

San Marco
What is the Piazza San Marco, Piazza San Marco?

What exactly is the Piazza San Marco in Venice? What can you find there?

Piazza San Marco, often known in English as the Plaza de San Marcos, is the main square of Venice, Italy. A remark often attributed to Napoleon (But perhaps more correctly to Alfred de Musset) calls the Piazza San Marco "The room of Europe." It is one of the few large urban spaces in a Europe where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorized traffic, which is confined to Venice's waterways. It is the only urban space called a square in Venice, the other, regardless of size, are called campuses. As the central landmark and meeting point in Venice, Piazza San Marco is extremely popular with tourists, photographers, and pigeons in Venice. The square was originated in the ninth century as a small area in front of the Basilica of San Marcos original. Was expanded to its present size and as in 1177, when the Batario River, which was limited to the west, and a spring, they had isolated the Doge's Palace Square, filled in the reorganization was to the meeting of Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. The square has always been seen as the center of Venice. It was the location of all major state offices Venice, and has been the seat of the archbishopric since the 19th century. It was also the focus of many of the festivals in Venice. It is a very popular in Italy even today. The Plaza is dominated by the Basilica, the Doge's Palace and the steeple of the Basilica, which distinguishes it. The buildings around the square are to the left of the Grand Canal, Palazzo Ducale, the Basilica of San Marcos, Clock Tower San Marcos, the Procuratie Vecchie, the Napoleonic Wing of the Procuratie, the Procuratie Nuove, the Campanile of San Marco and Loggetta and the Biblioteca Marciana. Most of the ground floor of the Procuratie is occupied by cafés, including the Caffè Florian and Gran Caffè Quadri. The Correr Museum and the Museum Archaeology is located in some of the buildings in the square. The Mint of Venice is beyond the Biblioteca Marciana de la Riva or the bank of the Grand Canal. During French occupation of 1797, Napoleon turned his palace Procuratie Nuove real. He built a new wing of the house of the ballroom, and this caused the destruction of the Church of San Geminiano, built by Jacopo Sansovino. The Napoleonic Wing (Napoleonic Wing) was designed by Giuseppe Solis in 1810. The Napoleonic Wing was the last of the buildings in the square to be completed, except the bell tower has been rebuilt, but its original design. The square has also served as inspiration for other public areas. Minoru Yamasaki use the site as a basis for the 5 acres of Austin J. Tobin Plaza that is located on the World Trade Center in New York until September 11, 2001. The floor of the Plaza was paved in the late 13 th century with bricks laid in a herringbone pattern. The light colored stone bands and parallel to the longitudinal axis from the main square. These lines were probably used in the creation of market stalls and in organizing frequent ceremonial processions. This design original pavement can be seen in the paintings of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, such as Gentile Bellini's Procession in Piazza San Marco, 1496. In 1723 the bricks were replaced by a more complex geometrical pavement design composed of a field of dark-colored igneous trachyte with geometrical designs executed in white Istrian stone, similar to travertine. Square diagonally set blocks alternated with rectangular and oval designs along broad parallel bands. Places will be launched the center, like a bowl where a drain conducted surface water into a drainage system below grade. The pattern connected the central portal of the Basilica the center of the opening in the west of the plaza. This line is closer to the front of the Procuratie Vecchie, leaving a nearly triangular space adjacent to its Procuratie Nuove wider end closed by the Campanile. The pattern continued past the campanile, stopping at a line connecting the three large antlers and leave the space immediately front of the Basilica undecorated. A smaller version of the same pattern in the Piazzetta paralleled Sansovino's Library, leaving close to a trapezoid with Doge's palace with the wide end closed by the southwest corner of the Bailica. The design was laid out by Venetian architect Andrea Tirali. Little is known about the reasoning Tirali for design data. Some have speculated that the pattern is still used to regulate market stalls, or at least remember their former presence in the square. Others believe that the pattern may have been drawn from oriental rugs, which were a popular luxury item in the shopping center. The alignment of the pattern of pavement serves to visually lengthen the long axis and strengthen the position of the basilica in his head. This agreement reflects the inner relationship of the nave to the altar in the cathedral. As part of the design, the plaza level was raised by about a meter room to mitigate flooding and allow more of the internal drains to carry water the Grand Canal. In 1890, the pavement was renewed "due to attrition." The new work closely follows the Tirali design, but eliminated the oval shapes and cut the western edge of the structure to accommodate the Napoleonic wing at that end of the square. The Plaza de San Marcos is the lowest point in Venice, and as a result during the acqua alta "High water" of storm surges from the Adriatic, or even heavy rains, is the first flood. Pour water into the sewer in the plaza runs directly on the Grand Canal. This is ideal during heavy rain, but during the acqua alta it has the opposite effect, with water rising channel up on the square.