We don’t know the exact date of the death of Marco Polo, but his last will and testament is dated January 9th, 1323 M.V.
The Sestiere Cannaregio is the second largest of the six, extending from the railroad station to the Rialto. It covers almost half of the northern part of Venice.
While we celebrate New Year on January 1st, for entire period of the Republic of Venice the Venetian state celebrated New Year on March 1st.
A spate of killings in the 1100s in Venice by assassins wearing false full beards, led a ban under capital punishment for wearing fake full beards.
The now almost extinct Venetian language was once widely spoken around Europe, and some Venetian words have survived.
Bad air was believed to be a major cause of sickness in the past, based on Aristotle’s idea of miasma as the cause of disease.
Who would expect to find runes in Venice? Yet, in central Venice a statue of a lion is covered in runic inscriptions
“Mezzo (Calle di) in Ruga Giuffa, a S. Maria Formosa.” from Curiosità Veneziane by Giuseppe Tassini