{"id":1692,"date":"2020-07-01T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:51:32","slug":"the-sestieri-of-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/the-sestieri-of-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"THE \u201cSESTIERI\u201d OF VENICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Historic Centre of Venice still maintains the division in Sestieri<\/p>\n<p>the six parts in which ancient Venice was territorially divided for tax and administrative purposes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This subdivision probably took place as early as 1171, under the Doge Vitale II Michiel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sestieri are three for each side of the Grand Canal that divides the island of Venice in two:<\/p>\n<p>St. Mark&#8217;s, Castle, Cannaregio on the left side<\/p>\n<p>Dorsoduro, San Polo and Santa Croce, on the right side<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this regard,<\/p>\n<p>the six teeth (called &#8220;rebbi&#8221;) of the gondola&#8217;s &#8220;iron&#8221; arranged on the front side of the comb represent precisely the six sexes of the city<\/p>\n<p>while the back-facing tooth represents the Island of Giudecca<\/p>\n<p>Also among the front teeth of some combs may appear three decorated listings, representing the only three bridges that cross the Grand Canal:<\/p>\n<p>Scalzi Bridge, Rialto Bridge, Academy Bridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Historic Centre of Venice still maintains the division in Sestieri the six parts in which ancient Venice was territorially divided for tax and administrative purposes &nbsp; This subdivision probably took place as early as 1171, under the Doge Vitale II Michiel &nbsp; The Sestieri are three for each side of the Grand Canal that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,98,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-tourist-information","category-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}