Campo San Sports shirt

The Campo San Polo is the vastest campo of Venice and the widest public space after the Place Saint-Marc. Its name derives from Saint Paul. It is located in the sestiere same name.

Intended initially for the cultures and the pastures, it was entirely paved bricks in 1493 at the time where was installed in the center the well which one sees still today. After the pavement, one used it for the markets, the fairs and the great meetings.

Its importance developed so much so that to the 16th century were transferred there from the Place Marc Saint the small markets of the poor. It remained however always less important than the large markets of the Rialto than attended merchants come from the known world.

Campo San Polo acquired a ludic identity: it was in fact the theater of public festivals, and plays, such as for example the play of ball and the bullfight. This irrefutable fact became unbearable so that in 1611 all the plays as well as the sale of goods were finally prohibited. A plate still preserved in the church testifies to this prohibition.

The February 26th 1548, Lorenzino de Médicis ( Lorenzaccio ) on the place was bored of stabs carried by two assassins on order of the large-duke of Tuscany Cosme Ier of Tuscany.

Prestigious buildings give on Campo San Polo. Facing the apse of the church San Sports shirt, a continuation curvilinéaire of frontages, whose form married the curve of Rio San Antoniocomblé in 1761, gathers the Maffetti-Tiepolo Palate, which was built by the Massari architect in 1712, the Soranzo palate, of Gothic style and the Donà palate, of the beginning of XVIe century.

On the side opposite of Campo, one can see the angle of the palate Corner Mocenigo, of the architect Michele Sanmicheli.

With number 2168 of the place, a brewery was of which there remains the sign in mosaic.

Lastly, located between Campo and Salizzada San Sports shirt, one of the streets which composes the major axis connecting Rialto to Campo Santa Margherita, one finds the church San Polo (Saint Paul Apôtre) of Byzantine origin, built in IXe century, altered in XVe century then at the beginning of the XIXe century, and whose only apse is released and can be seen of Campo, the frontage being enclosed in the buildings which separate it from Rio San Polo. One can see there fabrics of Tintoret and Tiepolo.

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