The,hidden,past,Venice,Normal, travel,insurance The hidden past of Venice
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Normal 0 14 false false false IT ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Tabella normale";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}Amid the mass of tourists who flock Piazza San Marcoand the beautiful surrounding buildings, no one would think that among thesebuildings so tastefully decorated, these artistically beautiful place you canstill feel the presence and the memories of so many people who were executedhere , next to a column of Palazzo Ducale. Instead, before two other columns,which have a color different from the others, were read the sentences whichwere then executed immediately before the first two columns. This ritual meantthat the prisoner was forced to look directly at the clock on the bell tower,so he knew exactly the time of his death, after which he was executed. In fact, there was a small chance of escape, but wasso faint that no one has ever succeeded. In fact they had to make a completecircle around the base of a column of the palace, without falling. We can stillsee how this base is worn and slippery, thus making it virtually impossible tocircle it around without falling. Most of the condemned executed in this mannerwere accused of heresy by the Inquisition. Another terrible way to execute the condemned washanging them inside an iron cage (the gheba, a vernacular term that still meansjail) which was left dangling from the bell tower, located next to the PalazzoDucale. The bell tower, built around the ninth century, could be friend orenemy of the Venetians, depending on their situation, and further imploded initself, but falling down a corner was fortunately intact. From this angle wasthen fortunately possible to reconstruct the Loggia of Sansovino and then thetower itself, as we see it now. The bell tower is now 100 meters high, toppedwith a golden statue of the Archangel Gabriel, ten feet high. A very impressivebuilding in its entirety. The statue is mobile, then turn depending on thedirection from which the wind blows. According to the Venetian, where thestatue turns to look at the Basilica means that there will be the high water. Another legend says that Emperor Frederick III ofHapsburg, annoyed at having to climb so many stairs to reach the Hall of theGrand Council for a reception, he climbed with his horse on the spiralstaircase to the top of the tower to prove his superiority, a task nevermanaged to others. Galileo Galilei during his stay in Venice used thesteeple as observatory, and still there in 1609 presented his telescope to theSeigniory. The bell tower houses a total of five bells: theMaleficio (curse) which accompanied tolling a death sentence, the Nona (Ninth),because it marks the hours, and Trottiera, that of Pregadi, who called themagistrates and the Senators in the meetings in the Palazzo Ducale, and lastthe Marangona (carpenter), the only one that was saved from collapse. Markedthe beginning and end of working for the carpenters, but mainly it was the onlyone that marked the twelve strokes of midnight. It still always at midnight marks the end of Carnival,beating the fateful twelve strokes on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.
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