Venice: Frommer's Guide from Answers.com
A map of the sestiere of San Marco. After 1100 years, the Republic lost independence when Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Venice on 12 May 1797 during the ...
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Cannaregio - Information from Answers.com
Cannaregio is the northernmost of the six historic sestieri (districts) of Venice. It is the second largest sestiere by land area and the largest by population, with ...
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San Marco - Information from Answers.com
San Marco is one of the six sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Although the district ...
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Sestiere - Information from Answers.com
The best-known example are the sestieri of Venice, but Ascoli Piceno, Genoa, Milan and Rapallo, for example, were also divided into sestieri. The medieval ...
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Castello, Venice - Information from Answers.com
Castello is the largest of the six sestieri of Venice, Italy. The district grew up from the thirteenth century around a naval dockyard on what was originally the Isole ...
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San Polo - Information from Answers.com
San Polo is the smallest of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy, covering 86 acres (35 hectares) along the Grand Canal. It is one of the oldest parts of the city, ...
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Burano - Information from Answers.com
Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy; like Venice itself, ... been subdivided in to five sestieri, much like the historical center of Venice.
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Dorsoduro - Information from Answers.com
Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca ...
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