WHAT WE DO
As students on a course that blends the humanities with new computer skills, our idea is to merge the historical and geographical notions of the city of Venice through the use of new technologies. On our website, through an augmented reality interface, you can learn more about this city, the history of its streets and specifically the area of the La Fenice theatre, located in the sestiere of San Marco, the most central and historically important.
Our love for the city, art and culture has led us to explore this topic further.
We don't live in Venice, nor were we born on the island, but this city has literally bewitched us.
We know how Venice can be a labyrinth and the nizioleti (the city's road signs) don't help.
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In Venice, the names of the calli and campi are not indicated by targe, as in other cities, as this is clearly not in keeping with the perspective of the houses and palaces. The names are therefore written on the walls of the houses and palaces using a white background on which the letters are written in black. These are the Nizioleti, i.e. small sheets, in fact lenzuolo in Venetian is called niziolo.
They are rectangular squares in mortar, painted in white (originally in lime) with a frame painted in black, with a freehand brush with the help of a wooden board.
The characters are painted with the help of tin moulds (dime) in which the letters of the alphabet are shaped, and the skilled painter knows how to arrange them by eye so as to centre the lettering and fill the ninzioleto symmetrically.
The use of nizioleti or ninsioleti was adopted during Austrian rule.
Fabrizio Caramagna
Before, under the Serenissima, there were no such names and the street names were the heritage of the people who lived in that district. In fact, the various names of calli and campielli, for the most part, were given by the presence of a family or a business or something similar. Then, given the convenience, this usage remained.
Among the names it is significant the recurrence of the most popular trades or those more linked to local traditions such as Remer, oar-maker, Squero, small boatyard, Barcaroli, Pescheria, Fontego, fondaco deposito, Chiovere, large open spaces for drying dyed or washed cloths, Spezier, apothecary, Forner, baker, Pistor, baker, Scaleter, confectioner, Pestrin, milkman, Frutarol, Botteri, coopers, Malvasia, retailer of Greek wine, much appreciated, especially in its sweet version.
Or they refer to a capital, a cross; there are numerous repetitions of Madonna, Christ or Capitelo.
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