Sestiere of CASTELLO  

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ITINERARY:
Start: Campo Santa Maria Formosa (da vedere Chiesa Santa Maria Formosa, Palazzo Querini), Calle Lunga Santa Maria Formosa, Calle Trevisana, Calle Bressan, Campo San Giovanni e Paolo (da vedere Basilica SS. Giovanni e Paolo e Scuola Grande San Marco), Salizada San Giovanni e Paolo e Barbaria delle Tole, Calle Zen, Campo e F.ta Santa Giustina, Calle e Campo San Francesco della Vigna (da vedere Chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna), Salizada San Francesco, Salizada delle Gatte, Campo delle Gatte, Calle dei Furlani, Fondamenta dei Furlani, Salizada S. Antonin, Campo Bandiera e Moro (da vedere la Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora), Fondamenta Ca' di Dio, Campo San Biagio, Fondamenta dell'Arsenale (da vedere: Arsenale), Campo della Tana, Fondamenta della Tana, Ponte, Calle del Forno, Via G. Garibaldi, Fondamenta Sant'Anna, Calle e Fondamenta Quintavalle.
Arrival: San Pietro di Castello (fermata ACTV delle linee 41-42 e 51-52)

INTRODUCTION 
The proposed route invites to the visit of the city part, that more orients them, than it extends beyond Saint public square Mark and the monuments celebrate all over the world, one Venice not always known but not sure minor for beauty and history. To the inside of sestiere of Castle, the "quarter" more extended of the city to insulare, finds in fact the most ancient religious nucleus of the Most serene one, in the island of Saint Peter, Olivolo call: the same name Castle indicates the presence in roman late age of a fortilizio that it encircled that small island. It is not forgotten consequently that Castle is also to sestiere of the Arsenal, center of construction of the ships of the Republic Veneta, the greatest factory of the modern age, and about one of the popular zones of the veneziano historical center, inasmuch as around to the yards insediarono the rooms for the maestranze, the buildings of service and for the activities collaterals. In its more northern part instead they were settled down to leave from XIII century i great buildings of the begging orders (Dominican to the Saint Zanipolo and Franciscans to Saint Francisco of the Vine), transforming the zone in a great charitable religious center.

CAMPO E CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA FORMOSA
ACTV linea 1 o 82, fermata San Zaccaria (altre linee 41-42, 51-52, 71, 14 e il servizio notturno N).
Our distance begins little beyond Saint public square Mark, from the airy Saint field Maria Formosa. This immense field represented one of more enlivens places of the city life and one to you of the antichi religious and civil centers of the Most serene one. Anciently it was theatre of many teatrali rappresentazioni, festivities and even huntings to the Tauruses. The church, whose classicheggiante facade of the ' 500 is opened towards the channel, was erected in 1492; draft of the capolavoro architectonic of Mauro Codussi, with which the architect asserts for before the time to Venice the values of the plastic-space vision Tuscany of the rinascenza. 
The plant to Latin cross, three navate, respects the foundations of the church of the WAYS century, second the tradition, one of the eight founded from Saint Magno, bishop of Oderzo, to continuation of the apparition of the Vergine in magnificent shape of matrona (formosa). It becomes part moreover harmonically on the previous plant to Greek cross with hemispheric cupola of XII the century. Of the ' 600 it is the baroque bell tower. Between the works of art, sure worthy of admiration they are the Polittico di Santa Barbara di Jacopo Palm Old (1480-1510), in the Nail head of the School of the Bombers, work that yields celebre the master; of face the ombrosa can be admired Last Supper of Leandro Bassano (fine XVI sec.), and in the nail head of the Conception celebre the Trittico of the Madonna of the Misericordia, of mantegnesco style, of the muranese Bartolomeo Vivarini (1473). 
In the Oratory it is conserved, between the other present works, one Madonna with Child of Giandomenico Tiepolo (XVIII sec.). To the southern extremity of the field, exceeded the river, in campiello Querini, finds the palace of the Querini-stampalia FOUNDATION, with an important library and one of the Galleries of art of the city. In the 20 it knows them, that they conserve in part putties and settecenteschi furnishings, works of veneziani painters from the sec. XIV to the XVIII: Donato and Catarino Veneziano (Incoronazione di Maria); Giovanni Bellini (Presentation to the tempio); Lorenzo di Credi (Adoration of the Vergine); Vincenzo Chain (Giuditta); Palm the Old one (Ritratti of F. Querini and Paola Priuli; Sacred conversation); Luca Giordano (S. Sebastiano); Old Peter (four panels with idyllic reasons); G.B. Tiepolo (Ritratto of proxy); Peter Longhi (the seven Sacramenti, the series of the Hunting in goes them and Hunting to the duck in lagoon); Francisco Zugno (Ritratto of Daniel Dolfin). In it knows it on the left of the income, the series of veneziane Festivities, paintings to popular subject of Beautiful Gabriel (sec. XVIII). The library conserve: 300,0000 volumes approximately 32.000, between these, consultabili to open shelf 100 scato them of the Archives of the family Querini Stampalia 1,200 manuscripts 97 incunaboli 1,600 cinquecentine 20,000 antichi volumes 20,000 pamphlets 4,000 periodicals, of which 500 in course 2,634 Recordings melted 355 geographic papers and mappali antichi. The more ancient nucleus of the librario bottom is constituted from papers and manuscripts which "Capitolare nauticum", the "Book of the Taylor", the epistolario of the Cardinal Angel Querini Maria, several ducali commission and collections of autograph celebrate. Other manuscripts contain images of remarkable fascination and suggestion.

CAMPO E CHIESA DI SAN GIOVANNI E PAOLO, SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN MARCO
Using the distance, Field SS. is caught up Giovanni and Paul (Saint Zanipolo), said also "field of the Meravegie" perhaps for prodigiosi facts that would have happened to you, or more probably because it represents, after Saint Public square Mark, the space more monumental than Venice. 
The center of the field is dominated from an imposing equestre statue thought one of beautifulst to the world, monument to the famous condottiero Bartolomeo COLLEONI, than in order more than vent' years it was to the service of the Republic of Venice. Work (1491-96) is of fiorentino Andrea Verrocchio, master of Leonardo From You win, and would have had to be erected (for expressed will of the Colleoni) in Saint Public square Mark, where to the contrary a law prevented the monument construction dedicates to you to private citizens. 
And here the stratagem: it came raised yes, but not of forehead to the church of Saint Mark, but of forehead to the school dedicated to the patron of the city. In fact what today it is the Civil Hospital in was passed the center of the SCHOOL of SAINT MARK, one of the six ancient Large Schools confraternite of devozione with tasks of attendance and misericordia towards the social layers more weak people. 
The precious facade laughed them to late XV-beginnings XVI century, and is work of Peter Lombardo and Mauro Coducci, two of the greatest rinascimentali architects who have worked to Venice. Of great effect they are the two riquadri you show with images "trompe the oeil to us", and representing two lions that seem to guard of the main door. "to accompany" the portone smaller they are instead two scenes from the life of Saint Mark. But it is the BASILICA of the SS. GIOVANNI and PAUL (or Saint Zanipòlo) to dominate the field. 
Begun towards the completed half of 1200 and approximately two centuries after, it is one of the more imposing gotici buildings of the city. It comes commonly defined the veneziano Pantheon for many funeral monuments of dogi (very 17) and important personages that it accommodates. 
Curious to this monumental church the bell tower lacks, than already from XIV the century it seems to be scomparso in the null one and today is replaced from a campaniletto to sail. The inside of the building communicates "an immense" effect: the colossal structures are all wrapped from the light soffusa that it leaks from the finestroni; most numerous the paintings, the sculptures, the things to see. 
As soon as it enters to you, along the navata one of right the monument to Marcantonio Bragadin, the hero of Famagosta is found, scorticato alive from the Turks in the 1571 (reliquia chilling one but a time onoratissima from the State is the contained skin in the urn). Between numerous and the interesting works of the church, between which rare vetrata policroma a cinquecentesca one, the polittico "of Saint Vincenzo Ferreri" of Giovanni is found Bellini, and some capolavori of Paul Veronese in the nail head of the Rosary (dedicated to the battle of Lepanto, gained from the veneziani against the Turks in 1571).

CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO DELLA VIGNA
Our distance continues moving to us towards east, to the margins of the large dock of the Arsenal, in Saint field Francisco of the Vine, therefore shaped in according to quarter of XVI the century, in concomitanza with the Saint restructure of public square Mark. The field is dominated from the great cinquecentesca church, built up on plan of Jacopo Sansovino, with classicheggiante facade of Andrea Palladium (1564-70). 
In fact, after the ill-fated debut of Saint Peter di Castello, the patriarch of Aquileia was still Barbarian Daniel to favor a palladiano assignment to Venice convincing Giovanni Grimani to affidargli the construction of this facade, turning out of fact the Sansovino constructor of the church trent' years before (but by now considered old after the Saint renewal of public square Mark). However the Barbarians, as soon as acquitted in a process for heresy, transform the work in one own autocelebrazione. From Leon Alberti Batiste in then, the architects of the Rinascimento are themselves engage to you in the difficult attempt to adapt the forehead of a building to only classroom, which are the tempio ancient, to planimetry more navate of the Christian churches. 
Palladium proposes its solution here: projected on only slowly a greater navata one, covered from a great eardrum, and the two lateral ones, covered from two semieardrums, the compositivo problem was constituted from the organic connection of the two arranges and the modular relationship of the two orders, the greater one called to resist the main eardrum and the minor the two semieardrums. 
The architect vicentino sets up both then the orders on a high base, that perron will be covered in the successive creations (es. the Redentore to the Giudecca) from one. The inside the immense inside is rich of art works: to 1º the skillful altar of transetto, the Madonna in adoring throne the Child of fra' Antonio from Negroponte (1470 c.); in the presbiterio, funeral monuments of doge Andrea Gritti and its cerchia, perhaps of Sansovino; in the nail head on the left of the presbiterio, sculptures of Lombardic Peter and scholars (1495-1510); in the Saint nail head, which it is approached from the transetto left, Madonna with the Child and knows you of Giovanni Bellini (1507); in 5ª the left nail head, Sacred conversation of Paul Veronese (1551 c.).

CHIESA DI S. GIOVANNI IN BRAGORA

Girovagando (from field of saint Francisco of the Vine for Branch Saint Bridge Francisco and Saint Salizzata Francisco in direction of the River of the Schiavoni and the River basin of Saint Mark, to exceed S. Antonin) between the calluses, in the popular zone to little steps from Saint Public square Mark, is possible to visit a jewel in gotico style: the Church of Saint Giovanni in Bragora in field Flag and Moor or of the Bragora (from the mysterious etimologia deriving perhaps from the ancient words, "brago" and "gora" that they would indicate the land of the field, in muddy origin; or perhaps from "agora", public square in Greek), center of a nucleus of predogale formation, space of evocative beauty. The church, rifared in 1475, has one characteristic facade in mattoni. The inside, to three navate, guards important paintings: to the walls of the skillful navata one, near the door of the sagrestia, one finds "Elena and Costantino" of Top from Conegliano (1502); the "revived Christ" of Alvise Vivarini, a "trittico with Madonna in throne between the Ss. Andrea and Giovanni Batiste" of Bartolomeo Vivarini; the "SS. Andrea, Gerolamo and Martino", trittico of Francisco Bissolo. In the presbiterio, with time adorned of it putties of Alexander Victoria (1596) is a "Baptism of Jesus" of Top from Conegliano (1494) and, to the skillful wall, "the last supper" of Paris Bordon. In the left navata one, the "orante Madonna with the Child" (1490) and one can moreover be admired small table with "Head of Redentore" (1493), both of Alvise Vivarini.

ALCUNE CURIOSITA'
Little distant from field Flag and Moor, in direction of Saint Mark, it is worthy of famous also the Church of the Mercy, or Saint Maria of the Visitazione, pointed out on the river of the Schiavoni. 
End from the half of 1300, with the annexed building, formed one of the most famous ospizi for the children abandons to you: just here, in XVIII the century, it directed for trent' years the chorus of the young people orfanelle master Antonio Vivaldi, saying "the red priest" for the flaming capigliatura or the scarlet garment, or, still, for the stormy character. The church puts into effect them laughed them to 1760. 
To the shoulders of the Mercy, to the end of calle Bosello, it can finally be visited the Church of S. George of the Greeks and the Greek Institute (Sacred Museum Painted Bizantini tel. 0415226581- week Timetable: 13,30-16,30 hours 9,00-12,30 and festive Timetable: Hours 10.00-17.00; Rate of income: £. 7,000 reduced Rate: £. 4.000), centers of the Greek-orthodox community, the more important between those aliens in the rinascimentale Venice. The Greek Institute in the Flangini College collects a ottantina of icone bizantine and postbizantine, church furnishingses and other objects of cult. Continuing for the Foundations Ca' di endured God and after the bridge there is the possibility to penetrate to the discovery of the Arsenal (only the external part since the complex is not visitabile) or to visit the Naval Historical Museum.

L'ARSENALE
In order to begin the visit with dignity we advise of incamminarsi along salizzata of the Pignater and the foundations of Forehead, in order to admire the entrance of the Arsenal, huge complex of yards that laughed them to the sec. XII or at the beginning of the sec. XIII, more times widened with one lasted development centuries, base of the power duffle-coat of the Most serene one. 
The income from earth is marked from a portale (1460), thought work of the veneziano rinascimento before, sormontato from an attic with a great lion marches attributed to Bartolomeo Bon. In the 1692-94 the terrace, adorned of baroque allegorical statues was constructed in front of the portale; to sides of this they are two coming from stone lions from Greece (that one on the left was placed in the port of the Pireo). 
More to right two smaller lions are others, one of which come from the island of Delo. The area of the Arsenal contains buildings of remarkable historical and architectonic interest, between which: the building of the Bucintoro (in the Old Arsenal), shelter of the dogale boat; the Gaggiandre (dock the Newest Arsenal), two huge aquatic yards constructed to us in 1568-73 on plan attributed to Jacopo Sansovino; the Corderie of the Lair (southern side of Arsenal), long m 300, where conserved the hemp and they twisted gòmene for the ships (the hour center for temporary exposures). From this point it is possible to re-establish itself to the route give via G. Garibaldi.

MUSEO STORICO NAVALE
A visit to this museum can offer the opportunity in order to touch with hand and to comprise the veneziana naval power. The museum in fact documents with cimeli, models, recordings and plastics the history of veneziana navy (sec. Xvi-xviii) and of the Italian Navy from 1860 today. 
Of particular interest: the model of the Bucintoro, splendid jail used from the doge in the ceremony of the Sposalizio with the Sea; a great model of galeazza veneziana cinquecentesca; models of frigates and boat vessels of the ' 700. 
A detached section of the museum, with true historical boats, is prepared in the Workshop Addles of the Arsenale.Ultima plugs of ours along route to the discovery of sestiere of Castle is the island and the Church of Saint Peter di Castello. From the way Garibaldi, following the distance that we have suggested to you, you will arrive in some minute in one the truly particular and beautifulst zone. 
Localization: Saint field Peter di Castello, raggiungibile crossing the channel of S. Peter through one of the two bridges that connect it to the body of sestiere of Castle.

SAN PIETRO DI CASTELLO
The last stage of the proposed distance is a secluded angle and evocative to the extremity it orients them of the city area, to the shoulders of the complex of the Arsenal, than from the sec. VIII at the beginning of the 800 it accommodated the religious power of the city. 
The church of S. rises you in fact Peter di Castello, until the 1807 cathedral of Venice, that is patriarcale church: of ancient origin (sec. IX) but more times restructured and rifared in the sec. Xvi-xvii, has one monumental facade of a 1594-96 and block bell tower, work of Mauro Codussi (1482-90). 
The plan of the facade is attributed to Palladium, to its first job to Venice, on indication of Daniel and Barbarian Marcantonio, that they turn out guarantor of the contract with the masons in January of 1558. But the dead women of the committente, patriarch Vincenzo Diedo, provoke the interruption of the yard to two years from the beginning of the jobs, that they will be ended only much later. 
That that us appears hour does not respect the palladiano plan exactly, but he is faithful to its fundamental addresses, in particular to the interaction between an order greater correspondent to the navata one centers them and one smaller in relation to those lateral ones, then realized compiutamente Saint Francisco of the Vine.