Venezia
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Paterae – medieval Constantinople in Venice
The paterae in Venice are small round reliefs that are scattered around the city, most of them dating to the medieval period.
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List of statues in public spaces in Venice
There are very few statues for great men in public spaces in Venice, of which only one (1) from the time of the Venetian Republic.
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Why are there so few statues in Venice?
The Venetians didn’t do statues of great men in public spaces. In over a millennium only one such statue was erected in Venice.
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The statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni
There aren’t a lot of statues in Venice to commemorate great men of the past, but there is one for Bartolomeo Colleoni, who wasn’t even Venetian.
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Why the winged lion?
There are statues, reliefs and paintings of a winged lion all over Venice. The lion is the symbol of the Evangelist St. Mark
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Africa Orientale Italiana
At Sant’Elena in Venice a flagpole base commemorates Venetians fallen in Africa Orientale Italiana – an Italian colony in Ethiopia and Somalia
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Liberation Day in Italy
Liberation Day – il Giorno della Liberazione – commemorates the end of German occupation in Italy on April 25th, 1945.
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Ballot and ballottaggio
The Venetian lawmakers voted by casting a small ball in a vase. That ball, a balote, became a ballot in the United States.
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Cocciopesto
Cocciopesto is a dark red colour commonly used for short-lived writing on walls – but sometimes they survive.
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Postcards from the 1950s
Some old postcards from the 1950s give us a glimpse of how the city has changed dramatically within a single lifetime.