San Marco

San Marco is one of the six districts ( Sestriere Venice ) of the old town of the Italian city of Venice and is generally regarded as the spiritual and political center. This is for historical reasons, but the government and administration of the Republic of Venice had its seat in the Doge's Palace and the buildings on St Mark's Square.

Its name derives from the Sestriere of the Church of San Marco Evangelista, which was built in the year 832, at the request of the Doge Giovanni Partecipazio, as the private chapel of the Doge. The Sestriere had in 1171 16 Contraden ( parishes ). Currently, San Marco 4236 inhabitants ( 12 December 2007), referring to the four parishes San Moisé ( with the church of Santa Maria del Giglio ), Santo Stefano, San Luca and San Salvador ( with the churches of San Bartolomeo and San Zulian ) distribute. The area accounts for 34 hectares.

San Marco is limited to the west by the Grand Canal, south through the basin of San Marco, and to the north and east by the district of Cannaregio and Castello. Among the most important buildings in Sestriere include the building at St. Mark's Square and the Doges Palace and St Mark's Basilica ( Basilica di San Marco ) and the Teatro La Fenice.

In San Marco, there are about 5500 houses, which are numbered. The system was introduced in the reign of Napoleon and makes it Localunaquainted hard to find their destination without detailed description.

The island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the southeast beyond the 400 -meter-wide Canale di San Marco ( and only 40 meters to the east of the Giudecca ) also belongs administratively to that of Sestriere, but not Giudecca.