Clothing has its own vocabulary, which often makes reading and translating old texts challenging for the uninitiated.
The Fortress of Sant’Andrea is a unique example of Renaissance military architecture and engineering. It is also sadly abandoned.
The calendar of feasts and celebrations in Venice was full of events which are now largely forgotten.
The Scuole Grandi — or the Great Schools — were Venetian medieval charities which due to their wealth became important institutions
The Venetian state was always an ad hoc construct, and institutions came and went at the convenience of the ruling elite.
The Republic of Venice changed continuously as conditions inside and outside of it changed, until it gradually found its final form in the 1300s and 1400s.
The ancient Venetians used the word scola or scuola to mean a guild, a confraternity or a charity. The scuole were generally not educational institutions.
List of churches on various lagoon islands — consecrated, deconsecrated, abandoned and demolished.