The Austrians Inwards Venice

So, I'm going to Republic of Austria adjacent month. By the way, did y'all know that Venice was occupied past times Republic of Austria inward the 19th century? But what did the Austrians create inward Venice? I gauge that they didn't just sit in addition to stare at the beauty of the town.

In 1797 Venice was invaded past times Napoleon, afterwards to a greater extent than than chiliad years of independence. Napoleon gave it away inward the peace treaty amongst Austria. The Austrians were never actually accepted inward Venice in addition to inward 1848 the metropolis organized a rebellion against the Habsburg Austrian empire that resulted inward the formation of the democracy of San Marco, which lasted a year. Venice in addition to its territories remained Austrian until 1866, when the one-time independent Republic was annexed to the newly unified Italian kingdom.

• The spritz.

The origins of spritz are unknown, equally it is the representative amongst many of Venetian dishes, included tiramisu, but it is believed that the Austrian soldiers stationed inward Venice created this drink, past times watering downwardly Venetian wines amongst sparkling H2O because they constitute them likewise strong. Later, other "corrections" were added, in addition to nowadays spritz is to a greater extent than oftentimes than non made amongst either aperol, select, or bitter, all aperitif drinks. There are endless variations to the spritz, also changing from city to city. The spritz is directly pop all over northern Italy, in addition to it's spreading to other parts of the country, equally good equally to other cities. I've seen it inward London, for example!

Holding a spritz

• I Nizioleti

"Nizioleti" are the beautiful squared frescoes that betoken the names of calli, bridges in addition to campi in Venice. Sometimes they receive got funny names, similar Ponte delle Tette ("bridge of the boobs"), or Sotoporgego del Casin dei Nobili ("close of the noblemen's casino"). The one-time indicates an surface area that was supposedly inhabited past times prostitutes, who showed their "merchandise" from the windows. The latter also reveals the libertine past times of the city, equally it recalls a casino frequented entirely past times noblemen. The nizioleti were adopted during the Austrian domination. Before that, entirely the divulge on a street door could betoken that y'all were at the right address, in addition to people knew the advert of the streets past times heart. As a affair of fact, inward Venice houses are numbered inside districts, non streets, in addition to thus that your address could live but San Marco 3567. Even today, when y'all give a Venetian address, y'all give the advert of 1 of the six sestieri, the neighbourhoods, in addition to the door number, but never the advert of the street. 

Me pointing at a 'nizioleto' displaying the advert of the town where I come upward from, Treviso



• The railway bridge.

The Austrian emperor, Ferdinand I, decided he wanted a railway connector from Milan to Venice, the 2 biggest cities of the Lombardo-Veneto. In 1842 the maiden off utilisation was inaugurated: it was the 3rd railway always constructed inward Italy. At the commencement the railway connector arrived until Mestre,  inward the mainland, in addition to from at that spot people had to bring a boat to arrive at Venice. In 1846 the railway pair that connects Venice to the mainland was inaugurated. You withal cross that railway pair if y'all brand it to Venice past times develop or past times car. It is really scenic because y'all tin post away encounter all the lagoon inward its beauty.





What y'all tin post away await to encounter from Ponte della Libertà (photo past times Marco Trevisan)



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